1539 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1539.

Events

• April – Printing of the Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed and it is distributed to churches in England.^[1] Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible (unacknowledged as this version is officially considered heretical).
• date unknown
  • Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first premises in England to be used regularly as a public theatre.^[2]
  • Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the Epistre tres utile, or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France.
  • The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City. The first known book from it, Manual de Adultos, is published in 1540.^[3]
  • Teseo Ambrogio's Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas, published in Pavia, introduces several middle eastern languages to western Europe for the first time.

New books

• Robert Estienne – Alphabetum Hebraicum
• Martin Luther - On the Councils and the Church

Poetry

Births

• February 27 – Franciscus Raphelengius, Flemish-born Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller (died 1597)^[4]
• March 5 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (died 1604)
• April 12 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish Peruvian mestizo chronicler (died 1616)
• December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (died 1604)
• December 20 – Paulus Melissus, German writer in Latin, translator and composer (died 1602)
• Unknown dates
  • Jean de Tournes, French author, printer and bookseller (died 1615)
  • Richard White of Basingstoke, English jurist and historian (died 1611)

Deaths

• March 5 – Kaspar Ursinus Velius, German scholar, poet and historian (born c. 1493)
• May 7 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
• July 5 – Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian religious writer and leader of the Counter-reformation (born 1502)^[5]
• August 10 – Lanspergius, German Carthusian monk and ascetic writer (born 1489)
• November 25 – Johann Alexander Brassicanus, German author and teacher (died c.1500)
• Unknown dates
  • Ferdinand Columbus, Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer (born 1488)
  • Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, Spanish author of an agricultural treatise (born 1470)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 145–148. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. p. 189. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.
3. "The Press in Colonial America" (PDF). A Publisher’s History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
4. (Dutch) Some biographical information
5. St. Anthony Mary's biography and his writings page on the Barnabite Fathers' North American website