1532 in literature
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Events
- First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
- William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England.[1]
- First edition of François Villon's Oeuvres with commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
- Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku later develops).
New books
- Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, first installment
- Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
- Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
- Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea
Poetry
Main article: 1532 in poetry
- Clément Marot – L’Adolescence clémentine
Births
- February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
- November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
- Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
- Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
- Approximate date – Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
- Latest date – Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)
In literature
- The main action of Peter Shaffer's drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) opens this year.