1516 in literature

none 1516 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1516. Events thumb|200px|Illustration for 1516 first edition of More's Utopia March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel. This year Erasmus also writes The Education of a Christian Prince although it is not published until 1532. c. December – Thomas More's Utopia, combining fiction and political philosophy and completed by September this year (when More presents a copy to Erasmus), is published in Leuven in Latin. unknown dates Samuel Nedivot's the 14th century Hebrew Sefer Abudirham in Fez is the first book printed in Africa.First Book in Africa http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/Africa.html Jewish Virtual Library 2014-12-01 Paolo Ricci translates the 13th century Kabbalistic work Sha'are Orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla into Latin, as Portae Lucis.Stephen G. Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning https://books.google.com/books?id=rl96-_JKQvkC&pg=PA105 5 January 2012 BRILL 90-04-22248-0 105 New books Prose Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa la Dialogus de homine (published in Casale) la De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum Bartolomé de las Casas – Memorial de Remedios para las Indias Erasmus – Novum Instrumentum omne Robert Fabyan (anonymous; died c. 1512) – The New Chronicles of England and France (published by Richard Pynson in London) Marsilio Ficino – la De triplici vita Thomas More – Utopia Andre Pauernfeindt – de Ergründung der ritterlichen kunst des fechtens durch freyfechter czu Vienn (Foundation of the knightly art of combat by the fencing guild of Vienna) Poetry 1516 in poetry Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso (first version, April) Baptista Mantuanus (published in France)Mantuanus Baptista https://archive.org/details/ecloguesbaptist01mustgoog 52 Eclogues of Mantuan The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus Mustard, Wilfred Pirt Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore, MD 1911 2009-05-17 Agellaria De sacris diebus (published in Lyon) Births March 26 – Conrad Ges(s)ner, Swiss naturalist, bibliographer and poet (died 1565)George Robert Gleig The family history of England https://books.google.com/books?id=f3cBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR31 1836 31 April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Saxon historian, classical archaeologist and epigrapher and poet (died 1571) December 21 – Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Parmese-born poet and dramatist (died c. 1590) Deaths March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, Mantuan Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin poet (born 1447)Charles George Herbermann Edward Aloysius Pace Condé Bénoist Pallen The Catholic Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=kbFAAQAAIAAJ 1912 Robert Appleton Company 296 December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer and chronicler (born 1462) References 30em