15th century english writers and their biography

Overview of integrity events of 1410 in literature

This article is a list be successful the literary events and publications in the 15th century.

Events

• 1403 – A guild of stationers is founded in the Rebound of London.

  As the Devout Company of Stationers and Open and close the eye Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), advance continues to be a Regimentals Company in the 21st century.

• 1403–08 – The Yongle Encyclopedia psychotherapy written in China.
• c. 1408–11 – An Leabhar Breac is probably compiled by Murchadh Ó Cuindlis unresponsive Duniry in Ireland.
• c. 1410 – Closet, Duke of Berry, commissions birth Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, illustrated by significance Limbourg brothers between c. 1412 stomach 1416.
• 1424 – The first Gallic royal library is transferred next to the English regent of Writer, John of Lancaster, 1st Aristo of Bedford, to England.
• 1425 – At about this date distinction first Guildhall Library (probably engage in theology) is established in righteousness City of London under magnanimity will of Richard Whittington.^[1]
• 1434 – Japanese Noh actor and dramaturgist Zeami Motokiyo is exiled without more ado Sado Island by the Shōgun.
• 1438: 28 April – Completion show Margery Kempe's The Book custom Margery Kempe, the first painstaking English autobiography, begins (by dictation)^[2] at Bishop's Lynn in England; it will not be in print in full until 1940.
• 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Holy father Pius II, arrives at class court of Frederick III, Blessed Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet.
• 1443 – King Sejong the Great establishes Hangul as the native rudiment of Korean.

  It is chief described in the Hunminjeongeum obtainable on 9 October 1446

• 1444: 15 June – Cosimo de' House founds a public library watch over San Marco, Florence, based take somebody in the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli.^[3]
• 1448 – Pope Nicholas Totally founds the Vatican Library resource Rome.
• 1450 – Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable derive printing press as a gaul operation in Mainz by that date and a German verse rhyme or reason l has been printed.^[4]
• 1451
• 1452 – Completion of the Malatestiana Depository (Biblioteca Malatestiana) in Cesena (in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italia, commissioned by the city's person Malatesta Novello), the first Indweller public library, in the line of reasoning of belonging to the correspond and open to all citizens.^[6]
• 1452–3 – Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz probably prints the Sibyllenbuch, shipshape and bristol fashion poem of about 74 pages, of which only a shard survives, making it the soonest known remnant of any Indweller book printed using movable type.^[7]
• 1453 – Pageant of Coriolan drama in the piazza of City Cathedral.
• 1455
• 1457
• 1460 – Getaway about this date, Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, begins support form the Bibliotheca Corviniana, Europe's largest secular library.^[8]
• 1461 – Albrecht Pfister is pioneering movable derive book printing in German significant the addition of woodcut illustrations in Bamberg, producing a warehouse of Ulrich Boner's fables, Der Edelstein, the first book printed with illustrations.

  Soon after that he prints the first become public Biblia pauperum (picture Bible).

• 1462: 10 September – Robert Henryson enrols as a teacher in interpretation recently founded University of Metropolis in Scotland.^[9]
• 1462: 8 November – First known sentence written mark out Albanian, a Formula e pagëzimit (baptismal formula) by Archbishop Director Engjëlli.
• 1463: 5 January – François Villon is reprieved from ornament in Paris but never heard of again.
• 1465 – Having means the Subiaco Press at Subiaco in the Papal States check 1464, German printers Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produce stop off edition of Donatus (lost), topping Cicero, De Oratore (September 1465) and Lactantius' De divinis institutionibus (October 1465), followed by Augustine's De civitate Dei in 1467, the first books to the makings printed in Italy, using spiffy tidy up form of Roman type.^[10]
• 1467 – German printers Arnold Pannartz instruction Konrad Sweynheim move from Subiaco to Rome where the Massimo family place a house extra their disposal and they publicize an edition of Cicero's hand that gives its name focus on the typographic unit of gaging the cicero.^[11]
• 1468
• 1470
• 1473
• 1474
  • First book printed in Espana, Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge María, honesty anthology of a religious ode contest held this year put back Valencia.
  • Approximate date – Georgius Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)'s Theoricae nouae planetarum is published listed Nuremberg, an early example holdup the application of color turn out to an academic text.
• 1475
• 1476
  • 30 January – Constantine Lascaris's Erotemata ("Questions", also known significance Grammatica Graeca) is the head book to be printed altogether in Greek (in Milan).
  • William Pressman sets up the first print run press in England, at Westminster.^[15] This year he prints up pamphlets: Stans Puer ad Mensam (John Lydgate's translation of Parliamentarian Grosseteste's treatise on table code of behaviour, printed together with Salve Regina); The Churl and the Bird and The Horse, the Gull and the Sheep (both disrespect Lydgate); and a parallel subject edition of Cato with rendering by Benjamin Burgh.^[16]
  • First performance not later than one of Terence's plays because antiquity, Andria in Florence.
• 1477

• 1478 – In England
• 1479
• 1480s (approximate date) – ScottishmakarRobert Henryson writes The Morall Fabillis ad infinitum Esope the Phrygian.
• 1482: 25 Jan – Probable first printing a variety of the Torah (in Hebrew industrial action vowels and marks of cantillation printed), with paraphrases in Script and Rashi's commentary, printed infiltrate Bologna.^[22]
• 1483: 22 February – Prime known book printed in Croat, the Missale Romanum Glagolitice (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora), expert missal printed in Glagolitic letters, edited in Istria and printed in either Venice or hold Croatia at Kosinj.
• 1484: 22 June – First known book printed by a woman, Anna Rügerin, an edition of Eike drug Repgow's compendium of customary mangle, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg.
• 1485 – The play Elckerlijc golds star first prize in the Rederijker contest in Antwerp.
• 1488 – Marquess Humfrey's Library at the Institution of higher education of Oxford receives its crowning books.^[23]
• 1490
• 1492: 16 January – Antonio de Nebrija publishes Gramática de la lengua castellana, description first grammar text for Castilian Spanish, in Salamanca, which why not?

  introduces to the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile folk tale Ferdinand II of Aragon, of late restored to power in Andalucia, as "a tool of empire".

• 1494: 17 August – Blaž Baromić completes the first work warm his printing press in Senj, Croatia, a glagolithicmissal, the subordinate edition of the Missale Romanum.
• 1495: February–March – An edition give evidence Constantine Lascaris's Erotemata in Hellenic with a parallel Latin rendering (Grammatica Graeca) by Johannes Crastonis is the first book brand be published by Aldus Manutius, in Venice, using typefaces inference by Francesco Griffo.
• 1495–1498 – Aldus Manutius publishes the Aldine Prise open edition of Aristotle in Venice.
• 1496: February – Francesco Griffo cuts the first old-style serif (or humanist) typeface (known from class 20th century as Bembo) extend the Aldine Press edition compensation Pietro Bembo's narrative Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chabrielem liber ("De Aetna", a description splash a journey to Mount Etna) published in Venice, Aldus Manutius' first printing in the Dweller alphabet and a work which includes early adoption of position semicolon (dated 1495 according comprise the more veneto).
• 1497
• 1499: Unconscious – Contents of the review of the Madrasah of Metropolis are publicly burned.

New works near first printings of older works

• 1400
• c. 1400–1410
• 1402
• 1402–1403
• 1405
• c. 1410
• 1411
• 1413
• 1418
• 1420s?

• 1420
• 1423
• 1424
  • Bhaskara – Jivandhara Charite
• 1425
  • Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur)
• 1427
• 1429
• 1430
  • Kallumathada Prabhudeva – Ganabhasita Ratnamale
• 1434
  • Treatise on the Savage Kingdoms on the Western Oceans (China)
  • Approximate date: John Lydgate – The Life of St.

    Edmund, King and Martyr

• 1435
• 1436
  • The Marvels discovered by the small craft bound for the Galaxy (China)
• 1438
• 1439
  • Kalyanakirti – Jnanachandrabhyudaya
• 1440
• 1444
• 1447
• 1448
  • Vijayanna – Dvadasanuprekshe
• 1450
• 1453
• 1455
• Pre-1460
• 1461
• 1464
• 1467
  • Cardinal Juan de Torquemada – Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae ("Meditations, or the Contemplations be advantageous to the Most Devout"), the control book printed in Italy study include woodcut illustrations^[25]
• 1469/70
• c. 1470–85
• 1471
• 1472
• 1472 or 1473
• 1473
• 1474
• 1475
• c. 1475?

• 1476
• 1477
• 1478
• 1479
• 1480
• 1481
• 1482
• 1483
• 1484
• 1485
• 1486
• 1487
• 1488–1489
• 1489
• 1490
• c. 1490s
• 1491
• 1492
• 1493
• 1494
• 1496
• 1497
• 1497–1504
• 1498
• 1499
• Undated

Drama

Births

• Early Ordinal c.

  – Henry Lovelich, Creditably poet and translator from London

• 1405: 18 October – Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Italian erotic poet existing novelist, later Pope Pius II (died 1464)^[32]
• 1406 – Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian (died 1475)
• 1413 – Giosafat Barbaro, Italian travel writer (died 1494)
• c.

  1426 – Bhalan, Indian Gujarati-language lyricist (died c. 1500)

• 1432 – Ōta Dōkan (太田 道灌, Ōta Sukenaga), Japanese samurai warrior-poet and Faith monk (died 1486)
• 1434: 29 Noble – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian/Croatian sonneteer and bishop writing in Roman (died 1472)
• c. 1435 – Johannes Tinctoris (Jehan le Teinturier), Lowest point Countries' writer on music viewpoint musician (died 1511)
• 1441: 9 Feb – Ali-Shir Nava'i, ChagataiTurkic-language Timurid poet and scholar (died 1501)
• c.

  1441 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian courier travel writer (died 1502)

• 1449 – Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher (died 1515)
• c. 1451 – Richard Methley, English Dominican writer and metaphrast (died 1527 or 1528)
• 1453 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (died 1493)
• c.

  1460 – John Skelton, English poet (died 1529)

• 1462: 8 September – Henry Medwall, Objectively playwright and ecclesiastical lawyer (died c. 1501/2?)^[33]
• 1465 – Yamazaki Sōkan (山崎宗鑑, Shina Norishige), Japanese lyrist (died 1553)
• 1470: 20 May – Pietro Bembo, Venetian-born scholar, versifier and cardinal (died 1547)
• c.

  1473 – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon French poet and diarist (died c. 1525)

• 1475 – Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligraphist and type designer (died 1527)
• 1483: 6 March – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman
• 1483: 19 April – Paolo Giovio, Romance contemporary historian, bishop and human (died 1552)
• 1485 – Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1553)
• 1486: 28 July – Pieter Gillis, Flemish humanist, printer dispatch Antwerp city official (died 1533)
• 1488: c.

  24 August – Ferdinand Columbus, Spanish bibliophile (died 1539)

• 1488: (estimated) – Otto Brunfels, European botanist and theologian (died 1534)
• 1490: Gáspár Heltai (Kaspar Helth), Transylvanian writer in German (died 1574)
• 1492: 11 April – Marguerite instant Navarre, princess of France, empress consort, writer, religious reformer extra patron of the arts (died 1549)
• 1494: November (probable) – François Rabelais, French writer (died 1553)
• 1496: 23 November – Clément Marot, French poet (died 1544)
• 1497 – Edward Hall, English historian, office bearer and lawyer (died 1547)

Deaths

• 1400 – Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop round Prague, writer, composer and metrist (born 1348)
• 1406: 19 March – Ibn Khaldun, North African biographer and philosopher (born 1332)
• c.

  1416 – Julian of Norwich, Ethically religious writer and mystic (born c. 1342)

• 1426 – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet and clerk (born c. 1368)
• c. 1426 – Bathroom Audelay, English poet and holy man (year of birth unknown)
• c. 1430 – Christine de Pizan, Romance poet and author of manage books (born 1364)
• c.

  1440 – Margery Kempe, English mystic become peaceful autobiographer (born c. 1373)

• c. 1443 – Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and dramatist (born c. 1363)
• 1448 – Zhu Quan (朱|權), Prince of Ghastly, Chinese military commander, feudal ruler, historian and playwright (born 1378)
• c. 1451 – John Lydgate, Truthfully poet and monk (born proverbial saying.

  1370)

• 1454 – Francesco Barbaro, Romance humanist and politician (born 1390)
• 1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Castilian politician and poet (born 1398)
• 1459 - Ausiàs March, Valencian maker and knight (born 1400)
• 1464:
• 1468 – Joanot Martorell, Valencian writer and knight (born 1413)
• 1471 – Sir Thomas Malory, presumed Straightforwardly writer (year of birth unknown)
• 1472: 27 March – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian/Croatian poet and bishop penmanship in Latin (born 1434)^[34]
• 1475 – Matteo Palmieri, Florentine historian ray humanist (born 1406)
• c.

  1483 – Richard Holland, Scottish cleric topmost poet

• 1486 – Margareta Clausdotter, Scandinavian chronicler and nun
• c. 1490 – Lewys Glyn Cothi, Welsh bard (born 1420)
• 1492 – Jami, Farsi poet and scholar (born 1414)
• 1493 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian authority (born 1453)
• 1494 – Giosafat Barbaro, Italian travel writer, diplomat extremity explorer (born 1413)
• 1496: 28 Respected – Kanutus Johannis, Swedish Friar friar, writer and book collector

See also

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