1532 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1532.
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Events
Uncertain dates
- The first complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
- William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England.[1]
- The first edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
- Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).
New books
Prose
- Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
- Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi (first installment)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
- Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
- Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea
Poetry
- Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine
Births
- February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
- November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
Uncertain dates
- Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
- Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
Probable year
- Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
- Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)
Deaths
In literature
- The main action of Peter Shaffer's drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) opens this year.
References
- Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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