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1544 literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.
Events
Summer – The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the Council of Brabant."Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).
December 31 – Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul.Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg. Accessed 21 January 2008.
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The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials.David T. Pottinger The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791 https://archive.org/details/frenchbooktradei0000pott registration Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1958 57
The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon.
New books
Prose
Cardinal John Fisher – Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
Sebastian Münster – Cosmographia
Guillaume Postel – De orbis terrae concordia
Domingo de Vico – Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue"; later prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition)Alexander S. Wilkinson Iberian Books / Libros ibéricos (IB): Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 / Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601 https://books.google.com/books?id=5OB5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 17 May 2010 BRILL 978-90-04-19341-3 74
Sefer HaYashar, printed in Venice
Michael Stifel – Arithmetica integra
Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.John Carter Brown Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of Books Relating to North and South America in the Library of the Late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I. https://books.google.com/books?id=bwQPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA132 1875 H.O. Houghton, Cambridge 132
William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and Succinct Account of Chief Birds Mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle; first English book devoted wholly to birds)
Vidus Vidius – ChirurgiaTubbs, R. S. Salter, E. G. Vidius Vidius (Guido Guidi): 1509-1569 Neurosurgery 59 1 201–3; discussion 201–3 2006 16823317 10.1227/01.NEU.0000219238.52858.47 free
Poetry
See also 1544 in poetry
Clément Marot – Œuvres (definitive edition)
Births
May 24 – William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)
Deaths
September 12 – Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
December – Denis Janot, French printer
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Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player and writer (born 1480)
Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444)
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