1544_in_literature
1544 in literature
Overview of the events of 1544 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.
- Summer – The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the Council of Brabant.[1]
- December 31 – Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul.[2]
- unknown dates
- The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials.[3]
- The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon.
Prose
- Cardinal John Fisher – Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
- John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
- Sebastian Münster – Cosmographia
- Guillaume Postel – De orbis terrae concordia
- Domingo de Vico – Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue"; later prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition)[4]
- Sefer HaYashar, printed in Venice
- Michael Stifel – Arithmetica integra
- Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.[5]
- William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and Succinct Account of Chief Birds Mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle; first English book devoted wholly to birds)
- Vidus Vidius – Chirurgia[6]
Poetry
- See also 1544 in poetry
- Clément Marot – Œuvres (definitive edition)
- May 24 – William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)
- September 12 – Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
- December – Denis Janot, French printer
- Unknown dates
- Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player and writer (born 1480)
- Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444)
- "Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).
- Pottinger, David T. (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57.
- John Carter Brown (1875). Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of Books Relating to North and South America in the Library of the Late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I. H.O. Houghton, Cambridge. p. 132.
- Tubbs, R. S.; Salter, E. G. (2006). "Vidius Vidius (Guido Guidi): 1509-1569". Neurosurgery. 59 (1): 201–3, discussion 201–3. doi:10.1227/01.NEU.0000219238.52858.47. PMID 16823317.