1547 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1547.
Events
- July 20 - On the death of the Alsatian scholar Beatus Rhenanus, his personal collection of around 670 books is bequeathed to the Humanist Library of Sélestat where it remains intact into the 21st century.[1]
- Japanese Buddhist poet and diplomat Sakugen Shūryō is a leader of the mission sent by the Ashikaga shogunate to the court of the Jiajing Emperor in Beijing.[2]
New books
- Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to Be Read in Churches, book 1
- Andrés de Olmos - Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana
- Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian)
- Catherine Parr - The Lamentation of a Sinner
- William Salesbury - A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe
- "Lucas Shepeherd" - John Bon and Mast Parson
- Gian Giorgio Trissino - Italia liberata dai Goti
New drama
- Lodovico Dolce - Didone
Poetry
- See 1547 in poetry
Births
- September - Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist, poet and biographer (died c.1615)
- September 22 - Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, poet, playwright and polymath (died 1590)
- September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1616)
- date unknown
- Cristóbal Mosquera de Figueroa, Spanish poet (died 1610)
- Conrad Vetter, German Jesuit preacher and polemical writer (died 1622)
- probable - Maciej Stryjkowski, Polish historian and poet (died c.1593)
Deaths
- January - Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar and poet, 76
- January 19 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a founder of English Renaissance poetry, 29/30
- February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, Italian noblewoman and poet, 56
- March 16 - François Vatable, French humanist scholar
- date unknown
- Edward Hall, chronicler, about 50
- Valentin Ickelshamer, German grammarian, about 47
- Johannes Mensing, German Dominican theologian, 79/80
References
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- ↑ Foegel, Joshua A. (1996). The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-804-72567-5. OCLC 32626862.
