1540 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1540.
Events
- The first known book from the first printing press in North America, set up in Mexico City, is published, Manual de Adultos.[1]
- Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed, privately.
- Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by Pope Paul III.
- Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard to Alsace where they meet many northern humanists.[2]
New books
- Amadis de Gaula of Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo Book 1 translated into French by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts at the special request of Francis I of France
- Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland
- The Byrth of Mankynde, a translation attributed to Richard Jonas from Rösslin's De partu hominis, the first printed book in English on obstetrics and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates[3]
- De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima, Georg Joachim Rheticus' abstract of Copernicus' as yet unpublished De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and the first printed publication of Copernican heliocentrism (printed in Danzig)
Poetry
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- Tontada Siddhesavara - Shatsthala Jnanamrita[4]
- Souterliedekens (Dutch metrical psalter), dedicated to and perhaps compiled by Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt
- Approximate date
- Sir Thomas More - Lady Fortune[5]
- Girolamo Schola - Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti[6]
Births
- January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)
- June 11 – Barnabe Googe, English pastoral poet and translator (died 1594)
- Unknown dates
- Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian and poet (died 1614)
- Rhys Cain, Welsh-language poet (died 1614)
- Frei Agostinho da Cruz (brother of Diogo Bernardes), Portuguese poet (died 1619)[7]
- Mathias Holtzwart, German poet (died after 1589)
Deaths
- October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (born 1488)
In literature
- Ford Madox Ford's novel sequence The Fifth Queen (1906–08) is set around this date.
References
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