1542 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1542.

Events

• The diary begun by Luca Landucci is completed by an unknown hand.<ref>"A Florentine Tradesman's Diary", The Saturday Review, collected in The Living Age ..., ed. Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell, pub. Littell, Son & Company, 1884, pp. 52–53.</ref>
• The earliest written example of the Romani language appears.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Prose

• Paul Fagius – Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
• Edward Hall – The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke

Poetry

• See 1542 in poetry

Births

• December – Catherine Des Roches, French poet and writer (died 1587)
• unknown date – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), Castilian poet and friar (died 1591)

Deaths

• January 10 – Gerard Geldenhouwer, Dutch historian (born 1482)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 14 – Christoph von Scheurl, German humanist writer (born 1481)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 11 – Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet (born 1503)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• unknown date – Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, who wrote in the Leonese language (born c. 1474)