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

Events

  • The diary begun by Luca Landucci is completed by an unknown hand.
  • The earliest written example of the Romani language 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

Births

  • December – Catherine Des Roches, French poet and writer (died 1587)
  • unknown date – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), Castilian poet and friar (died 1591)

Deaths

  • January 10 – Gerard Geldenhouwer, Dutch historian (born 1482)
  • June 14 – Christoph von Scheurl, German humanist writer (born 1481)
  • October 11 – Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet (born 1503)
  • unknown date – Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, who wrote in the Leonese language (born c. 1474)

References