1541 in literature

Events

• Late August - Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
• Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
• The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
• The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
• John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.

New books

• George Buchanan
  • Baptistes
  • Jephtha
• Jacques Peletier (translation into French from the Latin of Horace) - Ars Poetica^[1]
• Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh - Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

New drama

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi - Orbecche

Poetry

• Anonymous - The Schole House of Women^[2]
• Francesco Berni (died 1535) - Orlando innamorato

Births

• January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)

Deaths

• April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
• August
  • Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
  • Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
• Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)

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