1544 in literature

Overview of the events of 1544 in literature
Overview of the events of 1544 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.

Events

New books

Prose

  • Cardinal John FisherPsalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
  • John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
  • Sebastian MünsterCosmographia
  • Guillaume PostelDe orbis terrae concordia
  • Domingo de VicoLos Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue"; later prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition)[4]
  • Sefer HaYashar, printed in Venice
  • Michael StifelArithmetica integra
  • Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.[5]
  • William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and Succinct Account of Chief Birds Mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle; first English book devoted wholly to birds)
  • Vidus VidiusChirurgia[6]

Poetry

Births

  • May 24 – William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).
  2. ^ Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg.[1] Accessed 21 January 2008.
  3. ^ Pottinger, David T. (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57.
  4. ^ Alexander S. Wilkinson (17 May 2010). Iberian Books / Libros ibéricos (IB): Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 / Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601. BRILL. p. 74. ISBN 978-90-04-19341-3.
  5. ^ John Carter Brown (1875). Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of Books Relating to North and South America in the Library of the Late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I. H.O. Houghton, Cambridge. p. 132.
  6. ^ Tubbs, R. S.; Salter, E. G. (2006). "Vidius Vidius (Guido Guidi): 1509-1569". Neurosurgery. 59 (1): 201–3, discussion 201–3. doi:10.1227/01.NEU.0000219238.52858.47. PMID 16823317.