1537 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1537.

Events

• February –
  Roman Catholic Church and reforming the Ecclesia Anglicana. "The work was a noble endeavor on the part of the bishops to promote unity, and to instruct the people in Church doctrine."^[1]
• December 28 – The Ordonnance de Montpellier initiates a legal deposit system for books in the Kingdom of France.
• Date unknown
  • Construction of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice to the design of Jacopo Sansovino begins, continuing until 1560.
  • Paracelsus starts to write Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World.
  • Two complete Bible translations into English, both based on Tyndale's, appear:
    • Myles Coverdale's 1535 text is the first to be printed in England (by James Nicholson in Southwark, London).
    • The Matthew Bible edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew", is printed in Antwerp.^[2]
  • The English scholar
    Sidrak and Bokkus
    , The history of kyng Boccus, Sydracke... translatyd by Hugo of Caumpeden, out of frenche into Englysshe.

New books

Prose

• Francesco Guicciardini – La Historia d'Italia (History of Italy, to 1540)
• Martin Luther – Die Lügend von S. Johanne Chrysostomo

Drama

• Electra
• Nicholas Udall (attrib.) – Thersites

Poetry

Births

• Unknown dates
  • Achille Gagliardi, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1607)
  • Jane Lumley, English translator from Greek and Latin (died 1578)^[3]
  • Thomas Preston, English dramatist and master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (died 1598)^[4]
• Probable year – Bernardino de Escalante, Spanish priest, geographer and writer (died after 1605)

Deaths

• 1482
  )
• September 24 – Jean Ruel, French physician and botanical writer (born 1474)
• Unknown date – Abdul Quddus Gangohi, Indian Sufi poet (born 1456)^[5]

References