1546 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1546.

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Events

• July 17 – Peter Faber, appointed by Pope Paul III to act as a peritus on behalf of the Holy See at the Council of Trent, arrives in Rome, exhausted by his journey; he dies a fortnight later.[1]
• unknown date – Francisco de Moraes visits Paris for the second time, obtaining inspiration for his Palmerin d'Angleterre.[2]

New books

Prose

• Sir John Prise of Brecon (anonymously) – Yn y lhyvyr hwnn (first book printed in Welsh)[3]
• François Rabelais – Le Tiers Livre[4]

Drama

• Sperone Speroni – Canace (published)[5]

Poetry

• See 1546 in poetry

Births

• March 27 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (died 1625)
• May 21 – Madeleine de l'Aubespine, French poet and patron (died 1596)
• October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, German Lutheran pastor, composer and music theorist (died 1597)
• unknown dates
  • Philippe Desportes, French poet (died 1606)
  • Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (died 1619)[6]
  • Veronica Franco, Venetian poet and courtesan (died 1591)[7]
  • Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech lexicographer, publisher and writer (died 1599)

Deaths

• February 18 – Martin Luther, German theologian and reformer, 62[8]
• April 7 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian, 55[9]
• August 1 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian, 40[1]
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French humanist writer and printer, 37, executed for heresy

References

1. "Blessed Peter Faber", ucanews
2. Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Classe de Sciencias Moraes, Politicas e Bellas-Lettras (in Portuguese). A Academia. 1877. pp. 85–86.
3. National Library of Wales (1989). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal (in Welsh). Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 118.
4. Joseph A. Dane (1 January 2003). The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality and Bibliographical Method. University of Toronto Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8020-8775-1.
5. Rossiter Johnson; Dora Knowlton Ranous (1906). The Literature of Italy, 1265-1907: Flamini, F. A history of Italian literature (1265-1907) [c1906. National Alumni. p. 177.
6. sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 486.
7. Rinaldina Russell (1994). Italian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-313-28347-5.
8. Robert Kolb (1 December 1999). Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620. Baker Books. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-4412-3720-0.
9. Gross, Ernie. This Day in Religion. New York:Neal-Schuman, 1990. ISBN 1-55570-045-4