1543 in literature

Events

• unknown date – In France:
  • The Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris issues its first Index of prohibited (religious) books.
  • Guillaume Rouillé sets up as a bookseller in Lyon.

New books

Prose

• Mikael Agricola – Abckiria (first book printed in Finnish)
• Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
• Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras
• Fernán Pérez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre
• Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books)
• Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio Paleario)

Drama

• Lodovico Dolce – Hecuba

Poetry

• See 1543 in poetry

Births

• February 4 – Giovanni Francesco Fara, Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman
• February 25 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, politician, historian and poet (died 1603)
• November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (died 1584)
• Unknown dates
  • Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet (died 1588)
  • Thomas Deloney, silk weaver and writer (died in or before 1600 in literature)
  • Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet (died 1614)
  • Thomas Twyne, Elizabethan translator and physician (died 1613)
  • Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet (died 1593)

Deaths

• May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
• July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian (born 1465)
• Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book (born 1490)

References

References

1. Pottinger, David Thomas. (1958). "The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791". Harvard University Press.
2. Gerhard Falk (1992), ''The Jew in Christian Theology: Martin Luther's Anti-Jewish'' Vom Schem Hamphoras'', Previously Unpublished in English, and Other Milestones in Church Doctrine Concerning Judaism'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland. {{ISBN. 0-89950-716-6.
3. "Giovanni Francesco Fara".