unknown dates • The
Aldine Press editiones principes of
Lycophron,
Lysias,
Pindar and
Plato is published by
Aldus Manutius in
Venice. Aldus this year also publishes
Strozii poëtae pater et filius, the collected poems of
Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (died c.
1505) and his son
Ercole Strozzi (murdered
1508). •
Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from
Florence by the
House of Medici and writes
The Prince as
De Principatibus (On Principalities) in
Tuscany this summer. •
Johannes Potken publishes the first
Ge'ez (liturgical Ethiopian) text,
Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, at Rome. •
Gavin Douglas completes the
Eneados, the first translation of
Virgil's
Aeneid (or any major poem of classical antiquity) into any of the
Germanic languages – in this case, the Scots dialect of English. A Latin/English parallel text version of
Ovid's
Ars Amatoria made by "Walter" is also published this year by
Wynkyn de Worde in London as
The flores of Ouide de arte amandi with theyr englysshe afore them. •
Approximate year –
John Skelton is appointed
poet laureate by
Henry VIII of England. ==New books==