1542 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1542.

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Events

• The diary begun by Luca Landucci is completed by an unknown hand.[1]
• The earliest written example of the Romani language appears.[2]

New books

Prose

• Paul Fagius – Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
• Edward Hall – The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke

Poetry

• See 1542 in poetry

Births

• December – Catherine Des Roches, French poet and writer (died 1587)
• unknown date – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), Castilian poet and friar (died 1591)

Deaths

• January 10 – Gerard Geldenhouwer, Dutch historian (born 1482)[3]
• June 14 – Christoph von Scheurl, German humanist writer (born 1481)[4]
• October 11 – Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet (born 1503)[5]
• unknown date – Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, who wrote in the Leonese language (born c. 1474)

References

1. "A Florentine Tradesman's Diary", The Saturday Review, collected in The Living Age ..., ed. Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell, pub. Littell, Son & Company, 1884, pp. 52–53.
2. Matras, Yaron (2002). Romani: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-02330-0.
3. Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (1 January 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
4. Apocrypha. Brepols. 1998. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-503-50630-2.
5. Lindsey, Karen (1996). Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-201-40823-2.