1501 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1501. Events Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's Aeneid. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's Le cose volgari and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device. The first volume of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, the first collection of polyphonic music printed from movable type, is published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice. New books Prose Desiderius Erasmus – Handbook of a Christian Knight (Enchiridion militis Christiani) Margery Kempe – The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous) Nilakantha Somayaji – Tantrasamgraha