1532 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1532.
Events[edit]
- unknown dates
- William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England, the first time an English-language writer's texts have been collected together as "Works".[1]
- First edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
- First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
- Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).
New books[edit]
Prose[edit]
- Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
- Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi (first installment)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
- Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
- Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea
Poetry[edit]
- Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine
Births[edit]
- February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
- November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
- Unknown dates
- Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
- Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
- Probable year
- Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
- Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)
Deaths[edit]
- August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German abbess and chronicler (born 1573)
- unknown date – Thomas Arthur, dramatist (year of birth unknown)[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Charles Henry Cooper; Thompson Cooper (1858). Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1500-1585. Deighton, Bell. pp. 46–.