1550 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.

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Events

• June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.[1]
• July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.[2]
• unknown dates
  • The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
  • Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
  • The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.[3]

New books

Prose

• Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
• Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
• Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
• Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
• Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
• Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
• Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
• Primož Trubar
  • Catechismus
  • Abecedarium
• The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
• Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
• Rosary of the Philosophers

Drama

• Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
• Hans Sachs
  • Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
  • Das Wildbad

Poetry

• See 1550 in poetry

Births

• December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
• unknown dates
  • Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
  • Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
• Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)

Deaths

• February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
• July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)[4]
• December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)[5]
• unknown date
  • Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495)[6]
  • William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)

References

1. E. van Staalduine-Sulman (13 November 2017). Justifying Christian Aramaism: Editions and Latin Translations of the Targums from the Complutensian to the London Polyglot Bible (1517-1657). BRILL. p. 98. ISBN 978-90-04-35593-4.
2. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
3. Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Greenwood Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 0-313-33442-0.
4. Robert Aldrich; Robert F. Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2001). Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II. Psychology Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-415-15982-1.
5. Caroline Constant; Andrea Palladio (1993). The Palladio Guide. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-878271-85-3.
6. Holthöfer, Ernst (2001). "Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan (Baro)". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 64. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.