1485 in literature

1485 in literature

Events

*William Grocyn becomes prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral.

Works

*Leon Battista Alberti - "De Re Aedificatoria" (first printed book on architecture)
*Joseph Albo - "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" (posthumously published)
*Sir Thomas Malory - "Le Morte d'Arthur"

Births

*October 1 - Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (d. 1548)
*"probable" - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1553)

Deaths

*October 27 - Rodolphus Agricola, humanist writer (b. 1443)
*"date unknown" - Diebold Schilling the Elder, chronicler


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