15th century in literature  

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Still am I busy bookes assemblynge,
For to have plentie it is a pleasant thynge,
In my conceyt, and to have them ay in hande,
But what they mene I do not understande.

--Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant on the bibliomaniac

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The literature of the 15th century witnesses the shift from block-books to movable type.

Titles central to this site are the Facetiae (1470), Ship of Fools (1494) and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), In Praise of Folly (1509) would follow in the next century.

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