1545 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545.
Events
[edit]- April 2 – Italian scholar Pietro Bembo, on reading Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Description of Africa, a translation from dictation by Leo Africanus, comments: "I cannot imagine how a man could have so much detailed information about these things."[1]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
- Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna[2]
- Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book printed in Basque language)
- Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
- Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name)[3]
- Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren
Poetry
[edit]- See 1545 in poetry
Births
[edit]- May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian (died 02)Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke; Cates, William Leist Readwin (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 786.
- June 6 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite writer (died 1614)
- unknown date
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
- Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer (died 1606)
- Probable year – John Gerard(e), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)
Deaths
[edit]- April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481)
- April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
- July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520)[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Crofton Black, "Leo Africanus's 'Descrittione dell'Africa' and Its Sixteenth-Century Translations", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 65 (2002), pp. 262–272.
- ^ Simon Gindikin (1 January 1988). Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8176-3317-2.
- ^ Norton, Elizabeth (2016). Lives of Tudor Women. Head of Zeus. p. 230. ISBN 9781784081768.
- ^ Robin, Diana Maury; Larsen, Anne R. & Levin, Carole (2007). Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. ABC-CLIO, Inc.