1549 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1549.

Events

• June 9 – The Booke of the Common Prayer is introduced in churches in England as required by the Act of Uniformity of January 15.^{[1] [2]} It results in a Prayer Book Rebellion breaking out in the West Country.^[3]
• Sir Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles, produces the original manuscript of the Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (not published until 1582).^[4]
• unknown date – The content of the Guildhall Library in the City of London is acquired by Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, for his personal use.^[5]

New books

Prose

• Joachim du Bellay – La Deffense et illustration de la langue françoyse^[6]
• Joannes Bunderius – Compendium concertationis hujus saeculi sapientium et theologorum
• Robert Wedderburn (probable) – The Complaynt of Scotland

Drama

• Johannes Aal – Johannes der Täufer (John the Baptist)
• Lodovico Dolce
  • Fabritia
  • Giocasta (translation and adaptation of Euripides' The Phoenician Women)

Poetry

• See 1549 in poetry

Births

• March 11 – Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel, Dutch philosopher and grammarian (died 1612)
• December 24 – Kaspar Ulenberg, theologian and Bible translator (died 1617)
• unknown dates
  • Pietro Alagona, Italian theologian (died 1624)
  • Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Croatian statesman, philosopher and science writer (died 1610)^[7]
  • Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (died 1626)^[8]
  • Thomas Stephens, Jesuit writer and linguist (died 1619)^[9]

Deaths

• January 23 – Johannes Honter, Romanian humanist theologian (born 1498)^[10]
• January 28 – Elia Levita, Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (born 1469)
• March 25 – Veit Dietrich, German theologian (born 1506)
• April – Andrew Boorde, traveller, physician and writer (born 1490)
• August – Jacob Ziegler, humanist and theologian (born c.1470)
• November 25 – Jean de Gagny, French theologian^[11]
• December 21 – Marguerite de Navarre, French princess, poet, playwright and short story writer (born 1492)^[12]
• unknown date – Daniel Bomberg, Flemish printer (born c.1483)^[13]
• probable – Leonard Cox, humanist scholar and rhetorician (born c. 1495)^[14]

Notes and References

1. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library . 0-14-102715-0 . 2006.
2. Book: Palmer . Alan . Palmer . Veronica . 1992 . The Chronology of British History . Century Ltd . London . 147–150 . 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Book: Williams, Hywel . Cassell's Chronology of World History . registration . London . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 2005 . 0-304-35730-8 . 215–218.
4. Ross . Alexander . The Reverend Donald Munro, M.A., High Dean of the Isles . The Celtic Magazine . 9 . 1884 . 142–144.
5. Book: Emma Smith. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. 23 March 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-03444-5. 109.
6. Book: Denis Hollier. R. Howard Bloch. A New History of French Literature. 1994. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-61566-3. 194.
7. Book: Brücke. 1993. Društvo književnika Hrvatske. 16.
8. Book: Howard F. Cline. John B. Glass. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two. 1 January 1974. University of Texas Press. 978-1-4773-0683-3. 240.
9. Book: Manohararāya Saradesāya. A History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992. 2000. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-7201-664-7. 34.
10. Book: Hans Joachim Hillerbrand. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. 1996. 240.
11. Book: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France. 1888. Ecole nationale des Chartes. 12.
12. Book: A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. Brill. 2013. 9789004250505. 16.
13. Book: Israel Zinberg. A History of Jewish Literature: Italian Jewry in the Renaissance era. 1972. KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. 978-0-87068-240-7. 53.
14. Book: Rob Williams. A biographical dictionary of eminent Welshmen., from the earliest times to the present. 1852. W. Rees. 84.