1535 in literature

Events

• January 13 – A statute of the Parlement of Paris is enacted forbidding all printing under threat of hanging and closing all bookshops, although it is quickly abandoned.
• October 4 – Publication of Myles Coverdale's complete Bible translation into English in Antwerp is completed.
• unknown date – The earliest printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg for use in Tallinn.

New books

Prose

• John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners – Huon of Burdeuxe
• Desiderius Erasmus – Ecclesiastes: sive de ratione concionandi
• Simon Wanradt and Johann Koell – Catechism (first book text in Estonian)

Poetry

Main article: 1535 in poetry

Births

• Thomas North, English translator (died c.1604)
• Approximate years
  • George Gascoigne, English writer, soldier and courtier (died 1577)
  • Thomas Legge, English dramatist (died 1607)

Deaths

• February 7 – Thomas More, English social philosopher, politician and author (born 1478)
• October 10 – Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1485)
• Unknown date – Girolamo Angeriano (also "Hieronymus Angerianus"), poet in Italian and Latin (born c. 1470 – 1490)

References

References

1. Pottinger, David Thomas. (1958). "The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791". Harvard University Press.
2. C. S. Lewis. (1954). "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama". Oxford UP.
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6. Schnur, Rhoda, and Roger P. H. Green [https://books.google.com/books?id=iIFiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Girolamo+Angeriano%22+1535 ''Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis: proceedings of 10th Int'l Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Ávila, 4–9 August 1997'', p. 11.]