Overview of the events of 1516 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1516.
Events
- March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel. This year Erasmus also writes The Education of a Christian Prince although it is not published until 1532.
- c. December – Thomas More's Utopia, combining fiction and political philosophy and completed this year, is published in Leuven in Latin.
- unknown dates
- Samuel Nedivot's the 14th century Hebrew Sefer Abudirham in Fez is the first book printed in Africa.
- Paolo Ricci translates the 13th century Kabbalistic work Sha'are Orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla into Latin, as Portae Lucis.
New books
Prose
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
- Dialogus de homine (published in Casale)
- De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum
- Bartolomé de las Casas – Memorial de Remedios para las Indias
- Erasmus – Novum Instrumentum omne
- Robert Fabyan (anonymous; died c. 1512) – The New Chronicles of England and France (published by Richard Pynson in London)
- Marsilio Ficino – De triplici vita
- Thomas More – Utopia
- Andre Pauernfeindt – Ergründung der ritterlichen kunst des fechtens durch freyfechter czu Vienn (Foundation of the knightly art of combat by the fencing guild of Vienna)
Poetry
Main article: 1516 in poetry- Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso (first version, April)
- Baptista Mantuanus (published in France)
- Agellaria
- De sacris diebus (published in Lyon)
Births
- March 26 – Conrad Ges(s)ner, Swiss naturalist, bibliographer and poet (died 1565)
- April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Saxon historian, classical archaeologist and epigrapher and poet (died 1571)
- December 21 – Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Parmese-born poet and dramatist (died c. 1590)
Deaths
- March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, Mantuan Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin poet (born 1447)
- December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer and chronicler (born 1462)
References
- "First Book in Africa". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
- Stephen G. Burnett (5 January 2012). Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning. BRILL. p. 105. ISBN 90-04-22248-0.
- Mantuanus, Baptista (1911). Mustard, Wilfred Pirt (ed.). The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. p. 52. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
Eclogues of Mantuan
- George Robert Gleig (1836). The family history of England. p. 31.
- Charles George Herbermann; Edward Aloysius Pace; Condé Bénoist Pallen (1912). The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. p. 296.