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 (died 1548)
 * probable - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1553)

Deaths

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