1544 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.

Events

• Summer – The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the Council of Brabant.<ref>"Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).</ref>
• December 31 – Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul.<ref>Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg.[1] Accessed 21 January 2008.</ref>
• unknown dates
  • The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon.

New books

Prose

• Cardinal John Fisher – Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
• John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
• Sebastian Münster – Cosmographia
• Guillaume Postel – De orbis terrae concordia
• Domingo de Vico – Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue"; later prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Sefer HaYashar, printed in Venice
• Michael Stifel – Arithmetica integra
• Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by Juan Pablos.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and Succinct Account of Chief Birds Mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle; first English book devoted wholly to birds)
• Vidus Vidius – Chirurgia<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Poetry

• See also 1544 in poetry
• Clément Marot – Œuvres (definitive edition)

Births

• May 24 – William Gilbert, astronomer and natural philosopher (died 1603)

Deaths

• September 12 – Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
• December – Denis Janot, French printer
• Unknown dates
  • Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player and writer (born 1480)
  • Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444)