1544 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.
Events
New books
Prose
- Cardinal John Fisher – Psalmi 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 Münster – Cosmographia
- Guillaume Postel – De orbis terrae concordia
- Domingo de Vico – Los 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 Stifel – Arithmetica 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 Vidius – Chirurgia[6]
Poetry
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- "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).
- Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17585/17585-h/17585-h.htm Accessed 21 January 2008.
- Book: Pottinger, David T. . The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791 . registration . Cambridge, Massachusetts . Harvard University Press . 1958 . 57.
- Book: Alexander S. Wilkinson. 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. 17 May 2010. BRILL. 978-90-04-19341-3. 74.
- Book: John Carter Brown. 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.. 1875. H.O. Houghton, Cambridge. 132.
- Tubbs, R. S. . Salter, E. G. . Vidius Vidius (Guido Guidi): 1509-1569 . . 59 . 1 . 201–3; discussion 201–3 . 2006 . 16823317 . 10.1227/01.NEU.0000219238.52858.47.