This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.
Events
- Unknown date
- Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.
New books
Prose
- Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
- Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
- Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
- Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
- Primer of Claude of France
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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