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1550 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1550.

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Events

  • July 17 – Grant to Humphrey Powell from King Edward VI of England to start printing in Ireland.
  • Robert Estienne sets up a printing press in Geneva.
  • Approximate date – First publication in book form of the Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi.

    • Prose

  • Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
  • Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
  • Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
  • Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
  • Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
  • Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
  • Primož Trubar
  • Catechismus
  • Abecedarium (first two books in Slovene)
  • The Facetious Nights of Straparola (first European storybook to contain fairy tales)
  • Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
  • Rosary of the Philosophers

    • Drama

  • Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
  • Hans Sachs
  • Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
  • Das Wildbad

    • Poetry

  • See 1550 in poetry

    • Births

  • December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
  • Unknown dates
  • Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
  • Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
  • Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)

    • Deaths

  • February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c.1498)
  • December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)
  • Unknown date – William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)

    • References

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