1511 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1511.

Events

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New books

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Prose

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Poetry

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  • Jean Lemaire de BelgesLa Concorde des deux langages[2]
  • John Lydgate (died c. 1451) – The Governance of Kings ("Secrets of the Old Philisoffres", translated from Aristotle's Secreta secretorum)[3]
  • Cancionero general (anthology of Spanish poetry published by Hernando del Castillo)[4]

Births

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Deaths

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  • unknown dates
    • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)
    • Johannes Tinctoris (Jean de Vaerwere), Low Countries' composer, poet and writer on music, author of Diffinitorium musices, the first dictionary of musical terms (born c. 1435)

References

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  1. ^ Richard Ernest Walker (2008). Ulrich Von Hutten's Arminius. Peter Lang. p. 101. ISBN 978-3-03911-338-5.
  2. ^ France, Peter (ed.). "Jean Lemaire de Belges". The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 453. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
  3. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  4. ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.