1505 in literature

• 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) – '''' • 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) ==References==