1541 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1541.

Events

• Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
• Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
• The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
• The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
• John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.

New books

• George Buchanan
  • Baptistes
  • Jephtha
• Jacques Peletier (translation into French from the Latin of Horace) – Ars Poetica^[1]
• Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

New drama

• Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
• Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche

Poetry

• Anonymous – The Schole House of Women^[2]
• Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato

Births

• January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)

Deaths

• April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
• August
  • Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
  • Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
• Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)

References

1. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.