1538 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1538.

Events

• December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.

New books

Prose

• Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
• Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English)
• Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World
• William Turner – Libellus de re herbaria (Handbook of Herbs)

Drama

• John Bale
  • Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama (in verse)
  • Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked
• Georg Wickram – Der treue Eckart^[1]

Poetry

• Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a Popinjay^[2]
• Clément Marot – Œuvres de Clément Marot

Births

• December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1612)^[3]

Deaths

• Unknown date – Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet (born 1490)

References

1. Stober, A. (1866). J. Wickram.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3.  Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Guarini, Giovanni Battista". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.