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1541 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1541.

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Events

  • 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.
  • 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.

    • Prose

  • George Buchanan
  • Baptistes
  • Jephtha
  • Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

    • Drama

  • Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
  • Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche

    • Poetry

  • Anonymous – The Schole House of Women
  • Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
  • Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace)

    • Births

  • January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)

    • Deaths

  • 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)
  • Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)

    • References

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