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1541 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541.
Events
Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
unknown dates
The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.
New books
Prose
George Buchanan
Baptistes
Jephtha
Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – la Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia
Drama
Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche
Poetry
1541 in poetry
Anonymous – The Schole House of WomenCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace)Preminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 New York MJF Books/Fine Communications etal
Births
January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)
Deaths
April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
August
Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
unknown date – Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)
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