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]
gollark: As you can see, it is not possible to escape.
gollark: We had to temporarily disable calculus while patching that. Very not ideal.
gollark: Even though it was temporary, the damage to the fabric of reality was substantial. Though not as bad as when someone somehow set all the derivatives of position to 1.
gollark: Specifically, "not finitely describable" is not well defined.
gollark: We did slightly disprove this once, but there were issues with the assumptions.
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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