1545 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545.

Events

• April 2 – Italian scholar Pietro Bembo, on reading Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Description of Africa, a translation from dictation by Leo Africanus, comments: "I cannot imagine how a man could have so much detailed information about these things."^[1]

New books

Prose

• Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
• Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna^[2]
• Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book printed in Basque language)
• Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
• Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name)^[3]
• Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren

Poetry

• See 1545 in poetry

Births

• May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian (died 02)Book: Woodward. Bernard Bolingbroke . Cates. William Leist Readwin . Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. 1872. Lee and Shepard. 786.
• June 6 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite writer (died 1614)
• unknown date
  • George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
  • Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer (died 1606)
• Probable year – John Gerard(e), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)

Deaths

• April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481)
• April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
• July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Crofton Black, "Leo Africanus's 'Descrittione dell'Africa' and Its Sixteenth-Century Translations", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 65 (2002), pp. 262–272.
2. Book: Simon Gindikin. Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians. 1 January 1988. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-8176-3317-2. 1.
3. Book: Norton . Elizabeth . Lives of Tudor Women . 2016 . Head of Zeus . 9781784081768 . 230.
4. Book: Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England . Robin, Diana Maury . Larsen, Anne R. . Levin, Carole . amp . 2007 . ABC-CLIO, Inc..