1552_in_literature
1552 in literature
Overview of the events of 1552 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1552.
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- 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.[1]
- 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.[2]
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)[3]
- 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
- 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)[4]
- probable – Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet (died 1648)
- 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)[5]
- December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)[6]
- W. D. Elcock (1960). The Romance Languages. Faber & Faber. p. 480.
- Muller Janel; David Loewenstein; William Rainey Harper (2002). The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 839. ISBN 978-0-521-63156-3.
- Edmund Spenser (1869). The Globe Edition. Complete Works of Edmund Spenserurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR16. Macmillan and Company. p. 16.
- Edward Boehmer (1874). Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. K. Trübner. p. 154.