This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1542.

Events

*The diary begun by

Luca Landucci Luca Landucci (1436–1516) was an Italian apothecary from Florence, best known as the writer of a diary which later became an important primary source about the history of Florence. The older of two sons of a prosperous citizen of Florence, Landu ...

is completed by an unknown hand. *The earliest written example of the

Romani language Romani (; also Romany, Romanes , Roma; rom, rromani ćhib, links=no) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities. According to '' Ethnologue'', seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their ...

appears.

New books

Prose

* Paul Fagius – ''Liber Fidei seu Veritatis'' * Edward Hall – ''The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke''

Poetry

*''See

1542 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of PerpignanMagnusson, Magnus, gene ...

Births

*December – Catherine Des Roches, French poet and writer (died

1587 Events January–June * February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of E ...

) *''unknown date'' – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), Castilian poet and friar (died

1591 Events January–June * March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the fractured Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at l ...

)

Deaths

January 10 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...

–

Gerard Geldenhouwer Gerardus Geldenhouwer (1482 – 10 January 1542) was a Dutch historian and Protestant reformer. Geldenhouwer descended from a patrician family of Nijmegen, where he was born. His father, also named Gerard, was chamberservant at the court of Arnol ...

, Dutch historian (born 1482) * June 14 –

Christoph von Scheurl Christoph Scheurl or von Scheurl (11 November 1481 – 14 June 1542) was a German jurist, diplomat and humanist who became famous for arranging a humanistic friendship between Johann Eck and Martin Luther. Life Scheurl was born in Nurember ...

, German humanist writer (born 1481) * October 11 –

Sir Thomas Wyatt Sir Thomas Wyatt (150311 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though the family was ...

, English poet (born

1503 __NOTOC__ Year 1503 ( MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 20 – Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade wit ...

) *''unknown date'' – Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, who wrote in the Leonese language (born c. 1474)

References

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