Puneet Varma (Editor)

1552 in literature

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1552.

Contents

Events

  • June – Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
  • Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Romansh language (Putèr), Christiauna fuorma, a catechism
  • Belgrade printing house established.

    • Prose

  • Book of Common Prayer (revised)
  • Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
  • François Rabelais – Le Quart Livre
  • Gerónimo de Santa Fe (posthumously) – Hebræomastix
  • Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

    • Drama

  • David Lyndsay – A Satire of the Three Estates (first public performance)
  • Hans Sachs – Der Bauer im Fegefeuer

    • Poetry

  • See 1552 in poetry

    • Births

  • February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet (died 1630)
  • Unknown date – Jean Bertaut, French poet (died 1612)
  • Probable year of birth – Richard Hakluyt, English travel writer (died 1616)
  • Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet (d. 1648)

    • Deaths

  • June 10 – Alexander Barclay, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator (born c. 1476)
  • October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German theologian (born 1498)
  • December 11 – Paolo Giovio, Italian historian and biographer (born 1483)
  • December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)

    • References

    1552 in literature Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA