1532 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1532.
Events
- unknown dates
- William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England, the first time an English-language writer's texts have been collected together as "Works".[1]
- First edition of François Villon's Åuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
- First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
- Yamazaki SÅkan compiles the ShinseninutsukubashÅ«, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).
New books
Prose
- Otto Brunfels â Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
- Sebald Heyden â De arte canendi (first installment)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) â The Prince (Il Principe)
- Thomas More â The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) â Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
- Feliciano de Silva â Don Florisel de Niquea
Poetry
- Clément Marot â L'Adolescence clémentine
Births
- February 19 â Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
- November 28 â Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
- Unknown dates
- Ãtienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
- Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
- Probable year
- Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
- Tulsidas (तà¥à¤²à¤¸à¥à¤¦à¤¾à¤¸), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)
Deaths
- August 19 â Caritas Pirckheimer, German abbess and chronicler (born 1467)
- unknown date â Thomas Arthur, dramatist (year of birth unknown)[2]