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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1552
.
Events
June – Sir
David Lyndsay
's
Middle Scots
satirical
morality play
A Satire of the Three Estates
first performed publicly in full, at
Cupar
in
Fife
.
unknown dates
Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Swiss
Romansh language
(
Putèr
),
Christiauna fuorma
, a
catechism
.
[1]
Belgrade printing house
is established.
Ralph Roister Doister
, the first known
comedy
in the English, is written by London schoolmaster
Nicholas Udall
for his pupils to perform.
[2]
New books
Prose
Book of Common Prayer
(revised)
Bartolomé de las Casas
–
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
(Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias)
(written 1542)
[3]
François Rabelais
–
Le Quart Livre
Gerónimo de Santa Fe
(posthumously) –
Hebræomastix
Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis
(Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians)
, composed in
Nahuatl
by
Martín de la Cruz
and translated into Latin by
Juan Badiano
.
Drama
David Lyndsay
–
A Satire of the Three Estates
(first public performance)
Hans Sachs
–
Der Bauer im Fegefeuer
Poetry
See
1552 in poetry
Births
February 8
–
Agrippa d'Aubigné
, French Protestant poet (died
1630
)
unknown dates
Jean Bertaut
, French poet (died
1611
)
Philemon Holland
, English translator and schoolmaster (died
1637
)
Edmund Spenser
, English poet (died
1599
)
[4]
probable
–
Cvijeta Zuzorić
, Croatian poet (died
1648
)
Deaths
June 10
–
Alexander Barclay
, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator (born c. 1476)
October 17
–
Andreas Osiander
, German theologian (born 1498)
December 11
–
Paolo Giovio
, Italian historian and biographer (born 1483)
[5]
December 30
–
Francisco de Enzinas
, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)
[6]
References
^
W. D. Elcock (1960).
The Romance Languages
. Faber & Faber. p. 480.
^
Muller Janel; David Loewenstein; William Rainey Harper (2002).
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
. Cambridge University Press. p. 839.
ISBN
978-0-521-63156-3
.
^
"Mirror of the Cruel and Horrible Spanish Tyranny Perpetrated in the Netherlands, by the Tyrant, the Duke of Alba, and Other Commanders of King Philip II"
.
World Digital Library
. 1620
. Retrieved
2013-08-25
.
^
Edmund Spenser (1869).
The Globe Edition. Complete Works of Edmund Spenserurl=
https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR16
. Macmillan and Company. p. 16.
^
Thompson Cooper (1873).
A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of ... Great Britain and Ireland
. Bell. p. 607.
^
Edward Boehmer (1874).
Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520
. K. Trübner. p. 154.
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