1530 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1530.
Events
- January â The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
- May â The Tyndale Bible is publicly burned in England as heretical.[1]
- unknown dates
- First complete edition of the 'Zürich Bible', Huldrych Zwingli's translation into German printed by Christoph Froschauer, is published.
- An edition of Desiderius Erasmus's Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros Laurentii Vallae is the first book to use the Roman form of the Garamond typeface cut by Claude Garamond.
- Paracelsus finishes writing Paragranum and leaves Nuremberg.
- This is the earliest likely date for first printing of the Middle English tail-rhyme chivalric romance Sir Isumbras and of Sir Lamwell.[2]
New books
Prose
- Otto Brunfels â Herbarum vivae eicones (third part: 1536)
- Erasmus â A handbook on manners for children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus)
- William Tyndale â The Practice of Prelates
Drama
- Henry Medwall â Nature (first printing)[3]
- John Heywood â The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler[4]
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo â Rime
- Girolamo Fracastoro â Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
- Hans Sachs â Das Schlaraffenland[5]
Births
- July 3 â Claude Fauchet, French historian (died 1601)
- August 2 â Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (died 1606)
- November 1 â Ãtienne de La Boétie, French judge, philosopher and essayist (died 1563)
- Unknown dates
- Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1599)
- Jean Bodin, French political philosopher (died 1596)
- François de Belleforest, French poet and translator (died 1582)
- Pey de Garros, Occitan poet writing in Gascon (died 1585)
- Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet (died 1606)
- Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566)
- Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet also writing in Latin (died 1584)
- William Stevenson, English clergyman and presumed playwright (died 1575)
- Approximate years
- Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher (died 1593)
- Richard Tarlton, English actor (died 1588)
Deaths
- April 27 (one source states August 6)[6] â Jacopo Sannazaro, Neapolitan poet, humanist and epigrammist also writing in Latin (born 1458)
- April 28 â Niklaus Manuel, Swiss playwright writing in German and artist (born 1484)
- August 28 â Gerold Edlibach, Swiss chronicler (born 1454)
- December 22 â Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist writer (born 1470)
- Unknown date â Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana (born 1440)
- probable â Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright (born 1468)[7]