15th century in literature
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Still am I busy bookes assemblynge, --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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New works and first printings of older works
- 1400
- Alliterative Morte Arthure
- Shivaganaprasadi Mahadevaiah – Shunyasampadane
- c. 1400–1410
- Nicholas Love – The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (translation and adaptation into Middle English of the Meditations on the Life of Christ)
- 1402
- Christine de Pizan – Dit de la Rose
- 1402–1403
- 1405
- Christine de Pizan
- L'Avision de Christine
- The Book of the City of Ladies (Le livre de la Cité des dames)
- The Treasure of the City of Ladies (Le trésor de la Cité des dames; also known as The Book of the Three Virtues)
- Christine de Pizan
- c. 1410
- Mahathera Bodhiramsi – Cāmadevivaṃsa (Template:Lang-th)
- 1411
- 1413
- 1418
- Domenico Bandini of Arezzo – Fons memorabilium universi
- 1420
- John Lydgate – Siege of Thebes (poem)
- Approximate date: Andrew of Wyntoun – Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland
- 1423
- Jordi de Sant Jordi – "Presoner"
- 1424
- Bhaskara – Jivandhara Charite
- 1425
- Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur)
- 1427
- Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (approximate date of completion)
- 1429
- Leone Battista Alberti – Amator
- Radoslav Gospels
- (?) Kashefi – Anvār-e Soheylī (Template:Lang-fa, "The Lights of Canopus"), a translation of the Panchatantra
- 1430
- Kallumathada Prabhudeva – Ganabhasita Ratnamale
- 1434
- Treatise on the Barbarian Kingdoms on the Western Oceans (China)
- Approximate date: John Lydgate – The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
- 1435
- Leon Battista Alberti – Della Pittura
- 1436
- The Marvels discovered by the boat bound for the Galaxy (China)
- 1438
- The Buik of Alexander
- Gilte Legende, a translation into Middle English
- 1439
- Kalyanakirti – Jnanachandrabhyudaya
- 1440
- Zhu Quan – Cha Pu (Tea Manual)
- Santikirtimuni – Santinathacharite
- Approximate date: Geoffrey the Grammarian (probable compiler) – Promptorium parvulorum
- 1444
- 1447
- Walter Bower – Scotichronicon (completed)
- 1448
- Vijayanna – Dvadasanuprekshe
- 1450
- Reginald Pecock – Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
- Approximate date: Ballads "A Gest of Robyn Hode" and "Robin Hood and the Monk"
- 1453
- Antoine de la Sale – Petit Jehan de Saintre
- 1455
- Pre-1460
- Ausiàs March – Poems
- Turpines Story (Middle English translation of the Historia Caroli Magni)
- 1461
- François Villon – Grand Testament
- 1464
- The Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East
- A Short English Chronicle (Cronycullys of Englonde)
- 1467
- Cardinal Juan de Torquemada – Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae ("Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout"), the first book printed in Italy to include woodcut illustrations
- 1469/70
- Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron (completed 1353)
- c. 1470–85
- Pietru Caxaro – Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text
- 1471
- Marsilio Ficino (translator) – De potestate et sapientia Dei, a translation from the Hermetica
- 1472
- Dante Alighieri – Divine Comedy (written c.1308–21), first printed 11 April in Foligno, Italy, by Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi
- Johannes de Sacrobosco – De sphaera mundi (written c.1230), the first printed astronomical book
- Paul of Venice (died 1429) – Logica Parva
- Roberto Valturio – De re militari, the first book with technical illustrations
- Approximate date: Thomas à Kempis (died 1471) – The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (first printing)
- 1472 or 1473
- Johannes Tinctoris – Proportionale musices (Proportions in Music)
- Zainuddin – Rasul Bijay (Victory of the Messenger) in Bengali
- 1473
- Avicenna – The Canon of Medicine
- Richard de Bury – The Philobiblon (first printing; written 1345)
- Sir John Fortescue – The Governaunce of England (first published 1714)
- Approximate date: Missale Speciale (Constance Missal)
- 1474
- Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge María, first literary book printed in Spain (40 poems in Catalan/Valencian, 4 in Spanish, 1 in Italian)
- 1475
- (or 1473–74?) – Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English, by William Caxton, in his own translation, in Bruges
- c. 1475?
- 1477
- Earl Rivers (translator) – Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres (printed by William Caxton in Westminster)
- William Caxton (translation from the French of Raoul Le Fèvre) – History of Jason (printed by Caxton)
- Bible in duytsche (Delft Bible)
- The Travels of Marco Polo (first printing; written c.1299)
- Approximate date: Blind Harry – The Wallace (The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, Middle Scots poem)
- 1478
- Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales
- Bíblia Valenciana (Valencian Bible), the first printed bible in Catalan/Valencian, translated by Bonifaci Ferrer
- 1479
- Rodolphus Agricola – De inventione dialectica
- 1480
- Pierre Le Baud – Template:Not a typoTemplate:Which lang (approximate date of completion)
- John of Capua – Directorium Humanae Vitae, a translation of the Panchatantra
- 1481
- The boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Iherusalem, a translation by William Caxton from Estoire d'Eracles, the French version of William of Tyre's Historia
- Mirrour of the Worlde, a translation of 1480 by William Caxton from Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Maius, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations
- The Historie of Reynart the Foxe (first English translation)
- Approximate date: 'Pseudo-Apuleius' – Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, the first printed illustrated herbal
- 1482
- Mosen Diego de Valera – Crónica abreviada de España ("Crónica Valeriana")
- Euclid – Elements (in Latin)
- Hans Tucher der Ältere – Beschreibung der Reyß ins Heylig Land
- 1483
- The Book of the Knight of the Tower, a translation by William Caxton
- The Golden Legend, a translation by William Caxton; as the most printed incunable across Europe, this reaches its 9th edition in English by 1527
- Giacomo Filippo Foresti – Supplementum chronicarum
- Das Der Buch Beyspiele, a translation of the Panchatantra
- Theophrastus – Historia Plantarum (first Latin version of Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία translated by Theodore Gaza)
- 1484
- Aesop's Fables, a translation (from French) by William Caxton
- Plato – Opera Platonis (complete works), a translation by Marsilio Ficino
- 1485
- Leon Battista Alberti (died 1472) – De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52), the first printed work on architecture
- Joseph Albo – Sefer ha-Ikkarim (written before 1444)
- Bommarasa of Terakanambi – Sanatkumara Charite
- Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d'Arthur
- 1486
- Bernhard von Breydenbach – Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, with illustrations taken from life by the printer Erhard Reuwich
- The Boke of Seynt Albans, with a contribution attributed to Juliana Berners
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola – De hominis dignitate
- 1487
- Niccolò da Correggio – Fabula di Cefalo
- Heinrich Kramer with James Sprenger – Malleus Maleficarum, a witch-hunting manual
- 1489
- Marsilio Ficino – De vita libri tres (Three Books on Life)
- 1490
- John Ireland – The Meroure of Wyssdome
- Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba – Tirant lo Blanch
- c. 1490s
- Jacomijne Costers – Visioen en exempel
- 1491
- Johannes de Ketham (ed.) – Fasciculus Medicinae (first printed book to contain anatomical illustrations)
- 1492
- John of Gaddesden – Rosa Medicinæ (first printing; written 1307)
- 1493
- Giuliano Dati – Lettera delle isole novamente trovata, a translation into verse of a letter from Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand of Spain, regarding Columbus' first exploratory voyage across the Atlantic in 1492
- 15 June: Hartmann Schedel – Nuremberg Chronicle
- The Seven Sages of Rome, midland English version of the Seven Wise Masters story cycle (printed by Richard Pynson)
- 1494
- Sebastian Brant – Ship of Fools (Daß Narrenschyff)
- Fra Luca Pacioli – Summa de arithmetica
- 1496
- Isaac Abrabanel – Ma'yene ha-Yeshu'ah
- Juan del Encina – Cancionero
- 1497
- 1497–1504
- Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani (three volumes on courtly love, first printed 1505)
- 1498
- Annio da Viterbo – Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium ("Antiquities", forgeries)
- Polydore Vergil – Adagia
- 1499
- Francesco Colonna (attrib.) – Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Pierre Desrey – Genealogie de Godefroi de Buillon
- Thomas of Erfurt (mistakenly ascribed to Duns Scotus) – De Modis Significandi (first printing; written in early 14th century)
- Niccolò Machiavelli – Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
- Fernando de Rojas – Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, better known as La Celestina
- Polydore Vergil – De inventoribus rerum
- Jehan Lagadec (ed.) – Catholicon, the first French dictionary (trilingual with Breton and Latin; compiled in 1464)
- Undated
- Krittibas Ojha (translator, died 1461) – Krittivasi Ramayan
- Kim Si-seup (1435–93) – Geumo Sinhwa (金鰲新話, "Tales of Mount Geumo" or New stories of the Golden Turtle)
- At least two of the Middle English versions of Ipomadon
- Voynich manuscript (undeciphered, carbon dated to early 15th century)
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Drama
- c.1463–1475
- Probable date of composition of the "N-Town Plays" in The Midlands of England
- 1470
- Approximate date of composition of Elckerlijc, attributed to Peter van Diest (first printed 1495)
- Probable date of composition of Mankind
- 1492
- Juan del Encina – Triunfo de la fama
- 1493
- c.1497
- Approximate date of composition
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New drama
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Births
- 1406 - Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian (d. 1475)
- 1485 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1553)
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Deaths
- c. 1426 - John Audelay
- 1451 - John Lydgate
- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory
- 1475 - Matteo Palmieri
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See also
- 15th century in poetry
- 14th century in literature
- 16th century in literature
- List of years in literature
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