1541 in literature

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
• Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
• Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace)

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

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. (1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics". MJF Books/Fine Communications.