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1538 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1538.

Contents

Events

  • December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.

    • 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

    • Poetry

  • Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a Popinjay
  • Clément Marot – Œuvres de Clément Marot

    • Births

  • December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1612)

    • Deaths

  • Unknown date – Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet (born 1490)

    • References

    1538 in literature Wikipedia
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