1498 in literature

1498 in literature

Events

*May 8 - Girolamo Savonarola completes his "Infelix ego" while in prison awaiting execution.

Works

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Births

*December 19 - Andreas Osiander, Lutheran theologian (d. 1552)
*"date unknown"
**Tommaso Fazello, historian (d. 1570)
**Giambattista Gelli, humanist writer (d. 1563)
**Johannes Honter, humanist and theologian (d. 1549)
**Mirabai, Hindu poet (d. 1547)
**Pier Paolo Vergerio, theologian (d. 1565)

Deaths

*June 9 - Julius Pomponius Laetus, humanist writer (b. 1425)
*September 24 - Cristoforo Landino, humanist poet (b. 1424)
*December 7 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, humanist philosopher (b. c. 1433)
*"date unknown"
**Martinus von Biberach, theologian
**Mirkhond, Uzbek historian (b. 1433)
*"probable" - Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque, poet


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