1505 in literature

Poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert

Births

• February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)
• Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)
• Approximate year
• Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
• Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
• John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
• Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
• Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
• Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)

Deaths

• August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)
• September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)
• October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
• Unknown date
• Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)
• Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)
• Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)

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