This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1544.
Summer – Engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist free-thinking spiritualist sect; he is declared exiled by the Council of Brabant in his absence.
December 31 – 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul.
Undated
The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials.
The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon.
Approximate date – Spanish friar Domingo de Vico's Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue") is prevented from publication by the Spanish Inquisition.
Cardinal John Fisher – Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
Sebastian Münster – Cosmographia
Guillaume Postel – De orbis terrae concordia
Sefer HaYashar, printed in Venice
Michael Stifel – Arithmetica integra
Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.
William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and succinct account of the chief birds mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle)
Vidus Vidius – Chirurgia
See also 1544 in poetry
Clément Marot – Œuvres (definitive edition)
May 24 – William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)
September 12 – Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
December – Denis Janot, French printer
Unknown dates
Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player and writer (born 1480)
Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444)
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