1538 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1538.
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Events
- December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.
New books
Prose
- Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
- Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English)
- Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World
- William Turner – Libellus de re herbaria (Handbook of Herbs)
Drama
- John Bale
- Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama (in verse)
- Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked
- Georg Wickram – Der treue Eckart[1]
Poetry
- Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a Popinjay[2]
- Clément Marot – Œuvres de Clément Marot
Births
- December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1612)[3]
Deaths
- unknown dates
- Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet (born 1490)
- Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (born c.1475)[4]
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References
- Stober, A. (1866). J. Wickram.
- Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Victor Hugo (1993). The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Wordsworth Editions. p. 433. ISBN 978-1-85326-068-1.
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