1552 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1552.

Events

• June – Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
• Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Romansh language (Putèr), Christiauna fuorma, a catechism
• Belgrade printing house established.

New books

Prose

• Book of Common Prayer (revised)
• Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies^[1]
• François Rabelais – Le Quart Livre
• Gerónimo de Santa Fe (posthumously) – Hebræomastix
• Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

Drama

• David Lyndsay – A Satire of the Three Estates (first public performance)
• Hans Sachs – Der Bauer im Fegefeuer

Poetry

• See 1552 in poetry

Births

• February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet (died 1630)
• Unknown date – Jean Bertaut, French poet (died 1612)
• Probable year of birth – Richard Hakluyt, English travel writer (died 1616)
  • Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet (d. 1648)

Deaths

• June 10 – Alexander Barclay, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator (born c. 1476)
• October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German theologian (born 1498)
• December 11 – Paolo Giovio, Italian historian and biographer (born 1483)
• December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)

References