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1548 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1548.

Contents

Events

  • Hôtel de Bourgogne opens as a theatre in Paris.
  • Roger Ascham becomes tutor to Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I of England.

    • Prose

  • Mikael Agricola – Se Wsi Testamenti (first translation of New Testament into Finnish)
  • Gruffudd Hiraethog – Oll synnwyr pen Kembero ygyd (posthumous collection of Welsh proverbs by William Salesbury)
  • Martynas Mažvydas – The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian)
  • Catherine Parr – The Lamentation of a Sinner
  • Paolo Pino – Dialogo di pittura
  • William Salesbury – A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe
  • Nicholas Udall – The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente
  • Thomas Vicary – Anatomie of the bodie of man

    • Drama

  • John Bale – Kynge Johan

    • Poetry

  • See 1548 in poetry

    • Births

  • May – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (died 1606)
  • July 8 – Kim Jang-saeng, Korean scholar, politician and writer (died 1631)
  • September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian writer on architecture (died 1616)
  • November – André Guijon, French orator (died 1631)
  • November 27 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)
  • Unknown date – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (died 1595)

    • Deaths

  • February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer, 33
  • June 6 – João de Castro, Portuguese explorer and writer, 48
  • October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop, 63
  • Unknown date – Cristoforo di Messisbugo, Italian food writer

    • References

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