1504 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.

Events

 * Unknown dates
 * Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
 * Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

Prose

 * Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum
 * Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)

Drama

 * Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)

Poetry

 * Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
 * Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)

Births

 * October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
 * November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
 * c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)
 * unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)

Deaths

 * August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)
 * September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)
 * unknown dates
 * Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)
 * Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)