1544 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.
Events
- Summer â The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the Council of Brabant.[1]
- December 31 â Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul.[2]
- unknown dates
- The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials.[3]
- The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon.
New books
Prose
- Cardinal John Fisher â Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
- John Leland â Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
- Sebastian Münster â Cosmographia
- Guillaume Postel â De orbis terrae concordia
- Domingo de Vico â Los Proverbios de Salomón, las EpÃstolas 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 â Arithmetica integra
- Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.[5]
- William Turner â 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 â Chirurgia[6]
Poetry
- See also 1544 in poetry
- Clément Marot â Åuvres (definitive edition)
Births
- May 24 â William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)
Deaths
- September 12 â Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
- December â Denis Janot, French printer
- Unknown dates
- Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player and writer (born 1480)
- Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444)