This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545.
Events April 2 – 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."Crofton Black, "Leo Africanus's 'Descrittione dell'Africa' and Its Sixteenth-Century Translations", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 65 (2002), pp. 262–272.
New books Prose Roger Ascham – Toxophilus Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book printed in Basque language) Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471) Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name) Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren
Poetry See 1545 in poetry
Births May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian (died 02) June 6 – 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 – John Gerard(e), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)
Deaths April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481) April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520)
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