1541 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541.
Events
[edit]- Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
- Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
- unknown dates
- The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
- The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
- John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- George Buchanan
- Baptistes
- Jephtha
- Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia
Drama
[edit]- Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche
Poetry
[edit]- Anonymous – The Schole House of Women[1]
- Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
- Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace)[2]
Births
[edit]- January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)
Deaths
[edit]- April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
- August
- Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
- Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
- unknown date – Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)
References
[edit]- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.