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1550 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.
Events
June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.E. van Staalduine-Sulman Justifying Christian Aramaism: Editions and Latin Translations of the Targums from the Complutensian to the London Polyglot Bible (1517-1657) https://books.google.com/books?id=5Sk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 13 November 2017 BRILL 978-90-04-35593-4 98
July 17 – In England, King Edward VI gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal
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The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F Haase Donald Greenwood Publishing 2008 0-313-33442-0 340 https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_w7y9/page/340
New books
Prose
Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
Primož Trubar
Catechismus
Abecedarium
The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Rosary of the Philosophers
Drama
Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
Hans Sachs
Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
Das Wildbad
Poetry
See 1550 in poetry
Births
December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
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Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)
Deaths
February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)Robert Aldrich Robert F. Aldrich Garry Wotherspoon Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II https://books.google.com/books?id=giM73n_lca4C&pg=PA58 2001 Psychology Press 978-0-415-15982-1 58
December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)Caroline Constant Andrea Palladio The Palladio Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=0_uZ3iSZ104C&pg=PR6 1993 Princeton Architectural Press 978-1-878271-85-3 6
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Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495) Holthöfer Ernst 64 Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan (Baro) Michael Stolleis Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert 2nd 2001 Beck München German 3-406-45957-9
William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)
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