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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century. ==Events== 1501 * * Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's ''Le cose volgari'' and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device. 1502 * *Aldine Press editions of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', Herodotus' ''Histories'' and Sophocles. 1507 * * King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar. 1508 * *April 4 – John Lydgate's ''The Complaint of the Black Knight'' becomes the first book printed in Scotland. * * The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance ''Amadis de Gaula'', as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. * * Elia Levita completes writing the ''Bovo-Bukh''. 1509 * * Desiderius Erasmus writes ''The Praise of Folly'' while staying with Thomas More in England. 1510 * *April 10 – Henry Cornelius Agrippa pens the dedication of ''De occulta philosophia libri tres'' to Johannes Trithemius. 1510–1511 * *''Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein leben volbracht hat …'' is published by printer Hans Grüninger in Strassburg in Early New High German, the first appearance of the trickster character Till Eulenspiegel in print. 1512 * * The word "masque" is first used to denote a poetic drama. 1513 * * Aldine Press ''editiones principes'' of Lycophron, Lysias, Pindar and Plato published by Aldus Manutius in Venice. * * Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence by the House of Medici and writes ''The Prince'' as ''De Principatibus'' ("About Principalities") in Tuscany this summer. * * Johannes Potken publishes the first Ge'ez text, ''Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua'', at Rome. 1514 * * May 15 – The earliest printed edition of Saxo Grammaticus' 12th-century Scandinavian history ''Gesta Danorum'', edited by Christiern Pedersen from an original found near Lund, is published as ''Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae'' by Jodocus Badius in Paris. * * Gregorio de Gregorii begins printing ''Kitab Salat al-Sawa'i'' (a Christian book of hours), the first known book printed in the Arabic alphabet using movable type, in Venice, falsely assigned to Fano. 1515 * * Christoph Froschauer becomes the first printer in Zürich. 1516 * * Samuel Nedivot prints the 14th century Hebrew ''Sefer Abudirham'' in Fez, the first book printed in Africa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/Africa.html )〕 * * Paolo Ricci translates the 13th century Kabbalistic work ''Sha'are Orah'' by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla as ''Portae Lucis''. 1519 * * ''Apokopos'' by Bergadis, the first book in Modern Greek is printed in Venice. * * The chivalric romance ''Libro del muy esforzado e invencible caballero Don Claribalte'' ("Book of the very striving and invincible knight Don Claribalte"), the first literary work by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, is published in Valencia (Spain) by Juan Viñao. In the foreword, dedicated to Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, Oviedo relates that the work has been conceived and written in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (the Caribbean island of Hispaniola), where he has been working since 1514; therefore, it can claim to be the first literary work created in the New World.〔de Amezúa, Agustín G. (1956). Introduction to facsimile reprint of ''Libro de Claribalte''. Madrid: Real Academia Española.〕 1521 * * June 29 or 30 – Neacșu's letter: oldest surviving dateable document written primarily in the Romanian language (in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet). 1522 * * Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century compilation ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' is first printed, as ''Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi''. * * Luther Bible: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek, ''Das newe Testament Deutzsch'', is published. 1524 * * ''Eyn Gespräch von dem gemaynen Schwabacher Kasten'' ("als durch Brüder Hainrich, Knecht Ruprecht, Kemerin, Spüler, und irem Maister, des Handtwercks der Wüllen Tuchmacher") is published in Germany, the first publication in the "Schwabacher" blackletter typeface. 1526 * * Spring – The first complete printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible into English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, having been printed in Worms. In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, attempts to collect all the copies in his diocese and burn them. * * New Testament in Swedish, the first official Bible translation into Swedish, made by Olaus Petri under royal patronage. * * The first complete Dutch translation of the Bible is printed by Jacob van Liesveldt at Antwerp. * * The Bibliotheca Corviniana in Ofen is destroyed by troops of the Ottoman Empire. 1530 * * January – The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain. * * An edition of Erasmus's ''Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros Laurentii Vallae'' is the first book to use the Roman form of the Garamond typeface cut by Claude Garamond. * * Paracelsus finishes writing ''Paragranum''. 1533 * * October – The censors of the Collège de Sorbonne stigmatize François Rabelais' ''Pantagruel'' as obscene. 1534 * * Luther Bible: Martin Luther's ''Biblia: das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch'', a translation of the complete Bible into German is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, including woodcut illustrations. * * Cambridge University Press is granted a royal charter by King Henry VIII of England to print "all manner of books" and becomes the first of the privileged presses. * * Rabbi Asher Anchel's ''Mirkevet ha-Mishneh'' (a Tanakh concordance) is the first book printed in Yiddish (in Kraków). 1535 * *The earliest printed book in Estonian, a ''Catechism'' with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg for use in Tallinn. 1536 * *Petar Zoranić writes the first Croatian novel, the pastoral-allegorical ''Planine'' ("Mountains"); it is first published posthumously in Venice in 1569. 1537 * *Construction of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice to the design of Jacopo Sansovino begins, continuing to 1560. * *Paracelsus starts to write ''Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World''. * *December 28 – Ordonnance de Montpellier initiates a legal deposit system for books in the Kingdom of France. 1538 * *Paracelsus finishes writing ''Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World''. * *December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal. 1539 * *April – Printing of the Great Bible (''The Byble in Englyshe'') is completed and it is distributed to churches in England.〔 Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible (unacknowleged as this version is officially considered heretical). * *Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first premises in England to be used regularly as a public theatre. * *Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the ''Epistre tres utile'', or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France. * *The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City. The first known book from it, ''Manual de Adultos'', is published in 1540. 1540 * *Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play ''A Satire of the Three Estates'' first performed, privately. 1541 * *Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the ''Bovo-Bukh'', is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish. 1542 * *''La relación''/''The Account'', written by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, is published; it is the first European literature completely devoted to discussion of North America. 1550 * *Primož Trubar's ''Catechismus'' and ''Abecedarium'', the first books in Slovene, are printed in Schwäbisch Hall. * *Approximate date – First publication in book form of the Chinese ''shenmo'' fantasy novel ''Fengshen Yanyi''. 1551 * *An edition of the ''Book of Common Prayer'' becomes the first book printed in Ireland. 1552 * *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. 1554 * *Publication of Menno Simons' ''Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe'' begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature. 1565 * *Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara. 1567 * *October 14 – António Ferreira becomes ''Desembargador da Casa do Civel'' and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon. 1571 * *October 7 – Naval Battle of Lepanto; Miguel de Cervantes is wounded. * *Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne. 1572 * *Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage. 1575 * *September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates. After 5 years he is ransomed. * *Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his ''Astrophel and Stella''. 1576 * *December – James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, opening the great Elizabethan age of English Renaissance theatre. 1586 * *October 17 – Poet Sir Philip Sidney (born 1554) dies as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen. 1590 * *A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy. 1596 * *Blackfriars Theatre opens in London. 1597 * *Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, ''The Isle of Dogs''. 1598 * *September 22 – Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is briefly held in Newgate Prison. * *December 28 – The Theatre is dismantled in London. * * Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. 1599 * *Spring/Summer – Globe Theatre built in Southwark, London, utilising material from The Theatre. * *June 4 – Bishops' Ban of 1599: Thomas Middleton's ''Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires'' and John Marston's ''Scourge of Villainy'' are publicly burned as the English ecclesiastical authorities clamp down on published satire. * * Late – War of the Theatres, a satirical controversy, breaks out on the London stage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「16th century in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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