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1545 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1545.

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Events

  • April 2 – Italian scholar Pietro Bembo, on reading Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Description of Africa, a translation from dictation by Leo Africanus, comments: "I cannot imagine how a man could have so much detailed information about these things".

    • Prose

  • Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
  • Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna
  • Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book printed in Basque language)
  • Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
  • Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name)
  • Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren

    • Poetry

  • See 1545 in poetry

    • Births

  • Unknown date – Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer (died 1606)
  • Probable year of birth – John Gerard (John Gerarde), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)

    • Deaths

  • April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481)
  • April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
  • July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520)

    • References

    1545 in literature Wikipedia
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