1543 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1543.

Events

Guillaume Rouillé sets up as a bookseller in Lyon.

Mikael Agricola – Abckiria (first book printed in Finnish)

Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres")

Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras

Fernan Perez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre

Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ("On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books")

Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio Paleario)

See 1543 in poetry

February 4 – Giovanni Francesco Fara, Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman

February 25 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, politician, historian and poet (died 1603)

November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (died 1584)

Unknown dates

Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet (died 1588)

Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet (died 1614)

Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet (died 1593)

May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)

July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian (born 1465)

Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book (born 1490)

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