1505 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.

Events

 * 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.

Prose

 * Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
 * 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)