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1538 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1538.
Events
December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.
New books
Prose
Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English)
Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World
William Turner – Libellus de re herbaria (Handbook of Herbs)
Drama
John Bale
Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama (in verse)
Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked
Georg Wickram – Der treue EckartA. Stober J. Wickram https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_p3UZAAAAYAAJ 1866 Gedruckt bei J. P. Rissler u. komp.
Poetry
1538 in poetry
Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a PopinjayCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Clément Marot – Œuvres de Clément Marot
Births
December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1612)Guarini, Giovanni Battista 1905
Deaths
unknown dates
Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet (born 1490)
Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (born c.1475)Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame https://books.google.com/books?id=hZtfvHDFHE4C&pg=PA433 1993 Wordsworth Editions 978-1-85326-068-1 433
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