1533 in literature

Events

• October – The censors of the Collège de Sorbonne stigmatize François Rabelais' Pantagruel as obscene.
• French poet Maurice Sceve announces that he has found the tomb of "Laura", the woman who is the subject of so many poems by Petrarch, at the church of Santa Croce in Avignon, further strengthening French interest in the Italian poet.^[1]

New books

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Books 2 & 3
• Antoine Marcourt (as Pantople) – Le livre des marchans

New drama

• John Heywood
  • The Merry Play between Johan Johan the Husband, Tyb his Wife, and Sir Johan, the Priest (first published; written 1520)
  • The Mery Play between the Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte (first published)
  • The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers
  • The Play of Love

Poetry

Births

• January 2 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (died 1600)
• January 3 – Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza, Spanish friar, bishop and homilitic writer (died 1624)
• June 6 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician, polymath and writer (died 1617)
• August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1594)
• Eknath, Marathi language religious poet in the Hindu tradition of India (died 1599)
• Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer (died 1600)
• Andrea Rapicio, Italian poet writing in Latin (died 1573)^[2]
• Approximate date – Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet (died 1611)

Deaths

• July 6 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet also writing Latin verse (born 1474)
• Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher writing in Latin (born 1470)

In literature

• The main action of Peter Shaffer's drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) is set around this year.

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