15th century in literature



See also: 15th century in poetry, 14th century in literature, other events of the 15th century, 16th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

 * 1454 - Johann Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible
 * 1478 - The Ranworth Antiphoner is presented to St Helen's Church, Ranworth.

New books

 * 1410
 * Thomas Occleve - The Regement of Princes
 * 1413
 * Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York - The Master of Game
 * 1420
 * John Lydgate - The Siege of Thebes
 * 1429
 * Leone Battista Alberti - Amator
 * 1434
 * Treatise on the Barbarian Kingdoms on the Western Oceans (China).
 * 1436
 * The Marvels discovered by the boat bound for the Galaxy (China).
 * 1450
 * Reginald Pecock - Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
 * 1453
 * Antoine de la Sale - Petit Jehan de Saintre
 * 1461
 * François Villon - Grand Testament
 * 1473
 * Sir John Fortescue - The Governaunce of England
 * 1477
 * History of Jason, a translation from the French of Raoul Le Fèvre by William Caxton, begins large printed book publication in England, in or about this year; in the previous two years Caxton has been publishing English books from Bruges
 * 1479
 * Rodolphus Agricola - De inventione dialectica
 * 1482
 * Mosen Diego de Valera - Cronica valeriana!
 * 1485
 * Joseph Albo - Sefer ha-Ikkarim (written before 1444)
 * Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
 * 1486
 * Dame Juliana Berners - The Boke of Saint Albans
 * Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Oration of the Dignity of Man
 * 1487
 * Niccolò da Correggio - Fabula di Cefalo
 * 1489
 * Marsilio Ficino - De vita libri tres (Three Books on Life)
 * 1490
 * Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba - Tirant lo Blanc
 * 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
 * 1496
 * Isaac Abrabanel - Ma'yene ha-Yeshu'ah
 * 1498
 * Polydore Vergil - Adagia
 * 1499
 * Thomas of Erfurt (mistakenly ascribed to Duns Scotus) - De Modis Significandi printed (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

New drama

 * 1470 - probable date of composition of Mankind

Births

 * 1406 - Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian (d. 1475)
 * 1413 - Giosafat Barbaro (d.1494)
 * 1453 - Ermolao Barbaro (d. 1493)
 * c. 1460 - John Skelton (d. 1529), English poet
 * 1485 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1553)

Deaths

 * c. 1426 - John Audelay
 * 1451 - John Lydgate
 * 1454 - Francesco Barbaro
 * 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory
 * 1475 - Matteo Palmieri
 * 1486 - Margareta Clausdotter
 * c. 1490 - Lewys Glyn Cothi
 * 1493 - Ermolao Barbaro (b. 1453)
 * 1494 - Giosafat Barbaro (b. 1413)