1545 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545.
Events
- April 2 â 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 â Toxophilus
- Girolamo Cardano â Ars Magna[2]
- Bernard Etxepare â Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book printed in Basque language)
- Sir John Fortescue â De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
- Catherine Parr â Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name)[3]
- Thomas Phaer â The Boke of Chyldren
Poetry
- See 1545 in poetry
Births
- May 1 â Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian (died 02)Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke; Cates, William Leist Readwin (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 786.
- June 6 â 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 â John Gerard(e), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)
Deaths
- April 3 â Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481)
- April 14 â Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
- July 7 â Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520)[4]