1540 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1540.

Events [ edit ]

July 22 ? Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by Pope Paul III . ^[1]
December 13 ? John Standish's religious work A lytle treatyse is printed by Elisabeth Pickering , the first work known to be printed in London by a woman. ^[2]
unknown dates
- The first known book from the first printing press in North America , set up in Mexico City , is published, Manual de Adultos . ^[3]
- Sir David Lyndsay 's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates is given a private first performance.
- Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard to Alsace , where they meet northern humanists. ^[4]

New books [ edit ]

Prose [ edit ]

Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo ? Amadis de Gaula Book 1 (translated into French by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts at request of Francis I of France )
Hector Boece ? Historia Scotorum (translated into Middle Scots by John Bellenden at request of James V of Scotland )
Rosslin ? The Byrth of Mankynde ( De partu hominis , translation attributed to Richard Jonas) ^[5]
Georg Joachim Rheticus ? De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima (abstract of Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium )

Poetry [ edit ]

Tontada Siddhesavara ? Shatsthala Jnanamrita ^[6]
Souterliedekens ( Dutch metrical psalter dedicated to and perhaps compiled by Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt)

Approximate year

Sir Thomas More ? Lady Fortune ^[7]
Girolamo Schola ? Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti ^[8]

Births [ edit ]

January 26 ? Florent Chrestien , French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596 )
June 11 ? Barnabe Googe , English pastoral poet and translator (died 1594 )
unknown dates
- Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome , French soldier, historian and poet (died 1614 )
- Rhys Cain , Welsh-language poet (died 1614)
- Frei Agostinho da Cruz (brother of Diogo Bernardes), Portuguese poet (died 1619 ) ^[9]

Deaths [ edit ]

May 6 ? Juan Luis Vives , Spanish humanist polymath (born 1493 ) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Vives, Juan Luis ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
May 22 ? Francesco Guicciardini , Italian historian and statesman (born 1483 )
October 5 ? Helius Eobanus Hessus , German Latin poet (born 1488 )
October ? Robert Redman, London printer ^[2]

References [ edit ]

^ John Flood (8 September 2011). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook . Walter de Gruyter. p. 947. ISBN 978-3-11-091274-6 .
^ ^a ^b Carole Levin; Anna Riehl Bertolet; Jo Eldridge Carney (3 November 2016). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 . Taylor & Francis. pp. 242?. ISBN 978-1-315-44071-2 .
^ "The Press in Colonial America" (PDF) . A Publisher’s History of American Magazines ? Background and Beginnings . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-27 . Retrieved 2013-08-22 .
^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed. (1974). "Pierre de Ronsard". French Poetry of the Renaissance (5th ed.). Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8093-0135-5 .
^ First printed book in English on obstetrics and first book published in England with engraved plates. Ballantyne, J. W. (October 1906). "The Byrth of Mankynde (Its Author and Editions)" . The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire . 10 (4): 297?325. doi : 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1906.tb12722.x . PMC 5413625 . PMID 29612085 .
^ Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (2002) [1955]. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar . New Delhi: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-19-560686-7 .
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860634-5 .
^ "Poems on everyday things" . Oxford: Bodleian Library . Archived from the original on 2007-09-09 . Retrieved 2008-06-20 .
^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics . New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.

[1] John Flood (8 September 2011). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook . Walter de Gruyter. p. 947. ISBN 978-3-11-091274-6 .

[Pickering-2] Carole Levin; Anna Riehl Bertolet; Jo Eldridge Carney (3 November 2016). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 . Taylor & Francis. pp. 242?. ISBN 978-1-315-44071-2 .

[3] "The Press in Colonial America" (PDF) . A Publisher’s History of American Magazines ? Background and Beginnings . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-27 . Retrieved 2013-08-22 .

[4] Weinberg, Bernard, ed. (1974). "Pierre de Ronsard". French Poetry of the Renaissance (5th ed.). Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8093-0135-5 .

[5] First printed book in English on obstetrics and first book published in England with engraved plates. Ballantyne, J. W. (October 1906). "The Byrth of Mankynde (Its Author and Editions)" . The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire . 10 (4): 297?325. doi : 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1906.tb12722.x . PMC 5413625 . PMID 29612085 .

[6] Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (2002) [1955]. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar . New Delhi: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-19-560686-7 .

[cocel-7] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860634-5 .

[8] "Poems on everyday things" . Oxford: Bodleian Library . Archived from the original on 2007-09-09 . Retrieved 2008-06-20 .

[npepap-9] Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics . New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.

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