1550 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.
Events
[edit]- June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.[1]
- July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.[2]
- unknown dates
- The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
- Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
- The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.[3]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
- Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
- Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
- Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
- Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
- Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
- Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
- Primož Trubar
- The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
- Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
- Rosary of the Philosophers
Drama
[edit]- Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
- Hans Sachs
- Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
- Das Wildbad
Poetry
[edit]- See 1550 in poetry
Births
[edit]- December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
- unknown dates
- Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
- Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
- Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)
Deaths
[edit]- February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
- July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)[4]
- December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)[5]
- unknown date
- Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495)[6]
- William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)
References
[edit]- ^ E. van Staalduine-Sulman (13 November 2017). Justifying Christian Aramaism: Editions and Latin Translations of the Targums from the Complutensian to the London Polyglot Bible (1517-1657). BRILL. p. 98. ISBN 978-90-04-35593-4.
- ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Greenwood Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 0-313-33442-0.
- ^ Robert Aldrich; Robert F. Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2001). Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II. Psychology Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-415-15982-1.
- ^ Caroline Constant; Andrea Palladio (1993). The Palladio Guide. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-878271-85-3.
- ^ Holthöfer, Ernst (2001). "Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan (Baro)". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 64. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.