1540 in literature

none 1540 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1540. Events July 22 – Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by Pope Paul III.John Flood Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC&pg=PA947 8 September 2011 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-091274-6 947 December 13 – John Standish's religious work A lytle treatyse is printed by Elisabeth Pickering, the first work known to be printed in London by a woman.Carole Levin Anna Riehl Bertolet Jo Eldridge Carney A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 https://books.google.com/books?id=kDglDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA242 3 November 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-315-44071-2 242– unknown dates The first known book from the first printing press in North America, set up in Mexico City, is published, Manual de Adultos.The Press in Colonial America A Publisher’s History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings http://www.themagazinist.com/uploads/Part_4_Colonial_Printers_and_Papers.pdf 2013-08-22 2016-06-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20160627035434/http://themagazinist.com/uploads/Part_4_Colonial_Printers_and_Papers.pdf dead Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates is given a private first performance. Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard to Alsace, where they meet northern humanists.Weinberg, Bernard French Poetry of the Renaissance Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press 5th 1974 978-0-8093-0135-5 Pierre de Ronsard 70 New books Prose thumb|De partu hominis Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo – pt Amadis de Gaula Book 1 (translated into French by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts at request of Francis I of France) Hector Boece – Historia Scotorum (translated into Middle Scots by John Bellenden at request of James V of Scotland) Rösslin – The Byrth of Mankynde (la De partu hominis, translation attributed to Richard Jonas) First printed book in English on obstetrics and first book published in England with engraved plates. The Byrth of Mankynde (Its Author and Editions) 297–325 J. W. Ballantyne 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1906.tb12722.x 5413625 The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire 10 4 October 1906 29612085 Georg Joachim Rheticus – De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima (abstract of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium) Poetry 1540 in poetry Tontada Siddhesavara – Shatsthala JnanamritaSastri K. A. Nilakanta A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar 1955 2002 Indian Branch, Oxford University Press New Delhi 978-0-19-560686-7 362 Souterliedekens (Dutch metrical psalter dedicated to and perhaps compiled by Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt) Approximate year Sir Thomas More – Lady FortuneCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 978-0-19-860634-5 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Girolamo Schola – it Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggettihttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm Poems on everyday things Bodleian Library Oxford 2008-06-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110701/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm 2007-09-09 dead Births January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596) June 11 – Barnabe Googe, English pastoral poet and translator (died 1594) unknown dates Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian and poet (died 1614) Rhys Cain, Welsh-language poet (died 1614) Frei Agostinho da Cruz (brother of Diogo Bernardes), Portuguese poet (died 1619)Preminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 New York MJF Books/Fine Communications etal Deaths May 6 – Juan Luis Vives, Spanish humanist polymath (born 1493)Vives, Juan Luis May 22 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman (born 1483) October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (born 1488) October – Robert Redman, London printer References