1541 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541.

Events

• Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
• Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh , is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
• unknown dates
  • The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
  • The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
  • John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.

New books

Prose

• George Buchanan
  • Baptistes
  • Jephtha
• Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

Drama

• Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
• Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche

Poetry

Main article: 1541 in poetry

• Anonymous – The Schole House of Women ^[1]
• Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
• Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace) ^[2]

Births

• January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)

Deaths

• April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
• August
  • Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
  • Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
• unknown date – Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)

References

1. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
2. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.