1540 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1540.
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Events
- 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.
Uncertain dates
- The first known book from the first printing press in North America, set up in Mexico City, is published, Manual de Adultos.[1]
- Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates is given a private first performance.
- Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by Pope Paul III.
- Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard to Alsace, where they meet northern humanists.[2]
New books
Prose
De partu hominis
- Garci Rodríguez 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)
- Rösslin – The Byrth of Mankynde (De partu hominis, translation attributed to Richard Jonas) [3]
- Georg Joachim Rheticus – De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima (abstract of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium)
Poetry
- Tontada Siddhesavara – Shatsthala Jnanamrita[4]
- Souterliedekens (Dutch metrical psalter dedicated to and perhaps compiled by Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt)
Approximate year
- Sir Thomas More – Lady Fortune[5]
- Girolamo Schola – Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti[6]
Births
- January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)
- June 11 – Barnabe Googe, English pastoral poet and translator (died 1594)
Uncertain dates
- Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, 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)[7]
- Mathias Holtzwart, German poet (died after 1589)
Deaths
- May 22 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman (born 1483)
- October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (born 1488)
In literature
- Ford Madox Ford's novel sequence The Fifth Queen (1906–08) is set around this date.
References
- "The Press in Colonial America" (PDF). A Publisher’s History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings. 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 Gynæcology 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.
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