1530 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1515.

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Events

• January – The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
• May – The Tyndale Bible is publicly burned in England as heretical.[1]
• unknown dates
  • 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 – Herbarum vivae eicones (third part: 1536)
• Erasmus – A handbook on manners for children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus)
• William Tyndale – The Practice of Prelates

Drama

• Henry Medwall – Nature (first printing)[3]
• John Heywood – 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 – Rime
• Girolamo Fracastoro – Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
• Hans Sachs – Das Schlaraffenland[5]

Births

• July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (died 1601)
• August 2 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (died 1606)
• November 1 – Étienne 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] – Jacopo Sannazaro, Neapolitan poet, humanist and epigrammist also writing in Latin (born 1458)
• April 28 – Niklaus Manuel, Swiss playwright writing in German and artist (born 1484)
• August 28 – Gerold Edlibach, Swiss chronicler (born 1454)
• December 22 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist writer (born 1470)
• Unknown date – Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana (born 1440)
• probable – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright (born 1468)[7]

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Kent Cartwright (21 January 2010). A Companion to Tudor Literature. John Wiley & Sons. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-4443-1722-0.
4. [Anonymus AC09821254] (1810). The Ancient British Drama. William Miller. p. 2.
5. Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
6. Bondanella, Peter; Bondanella, Julia Conaway, eds. (1979). "Sannazaro, Jacopo". Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 462.
7. "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.