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1552 literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1552.
Events
June – Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
unknown dates
Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Swiss Romansh language (Putèr), Christiauna fuorma, a catechism.W. D. Elcock The Romance Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=64azgEs5tpEC 1960 Faber & Faber 480
Belgrade printing house is established.
Ralph Roister Doister, the first known comedy in the English, is written by London schoolmaster Nicholas Udall for his pupils to perform.Muller Janel David Loewenstein William Rainey Harper The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=J90cWIBoAPcC&pg=PA839 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63156-3 839
New books
Prose
Book of Common Prayer (revised)
Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) (written 1542)http://www.wdl.org/en/item/515/ Mirror of the Cruel and Horrible Spanish Tyranny Perpetrated in the Netherlands, by the Tyrant, the Duke of Alba, and Other Commanders of King Philip II World Digital Library 1620 2013-08-25 2018-06-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022101/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/515/ dead
François Rabelais – Le Quart Livre
Gerónimo de Santa Fe (posthumously) – Hebræomastix
Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.
Drama
David Lyndsay – A Satire of the Three Estates (first public performance)
Hans Sachs – Der Bauer im Fegefeuer
Poetry
See 1552 in poetry
Births
February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet (died 1630)
unknown dates
Jean Bertaut, French poet (died 1611)
Philemon Holland, English translator and schoolmaster (died 1637)
Edmund Spenser, English poet (died 1599)Edmund Spenser The Globe Edition. Complete Works of Edmund Spenserurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR16 1869 Macmillan and Company 16
probable – Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet (died 1648)
Deaths
June 10 – Alexander Barclay, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator (born c. 1476)
October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German theologian (born 1498)
December 11 – Paolo Giovio, Italian historian and biographer (born 1483)Thompson Cooper A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of ... Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 1873 Bell 607
December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)Edward Boehmer Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520 https://books.google.com/books?id=8qoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154 1874 K. Trübner 154
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