1538 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1538.

Events December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.

New books Prose Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English) Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World William Turner – Libellus de re herbaria (Handbook of Herbs)

Drama John Bale Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama (in verse) Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked Georg Wickram – Der treue Eckart

Poetry

Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a Popinjay Clément Marot – Œuvres de Clément Marot

Births December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1612)

Deaths unknown dates Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet (born 1490) Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (born c.1475)

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