16th Century in Literature - New Books

New Books

1501

• • The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)
  • Marko Marulić - Judita

1503

• • William Dunbar - The Thrissill and the Rois

1505

• • Georges Chastellain - Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps (posthumous)
  • Stephen Hawes
    • The Passtyme of Pleasure
    • The Temple of Glass
  • Lodovico Lazzarelli - Crater Hermetics (posthumous).

1508

• • Johannes Trithemius - De septem secundeis.
  • William Dunbar - The Goldyn Targe

1509

• • Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

1510

• • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo - Las sergas de Esplandián
  • Ruiz Paez de Ribera - Florisando

1512

• • Henry Medwall - Fulgens and Lucrece
  • Huldrych Zwingli - De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio

1513

• • First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas

1514-15

• • Gian Giorgio Trissino - Sofonisba

1515

• • Robert Fabyan - The New Chronicles of England and France

1516

• • Henry Cornelius Agrippa
    • Dialogus de homine (Casale)
    • De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum
  • Marsilio Ficino - De triplici vita.
  • Thomas More - Utopia.

1517

• • Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
  • Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy.

1518

• • Henry Cornelius Agrippa - De originali peccato

1524

• • Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 1: Books 1-6); first publication (Paris)

1525

• • Francesco Giorgi - De harmonia mundi totius
  • Paracelsus - De septem puncti idolotriae christianae.

1526

• • William Tyndale's New Testament translation

1527

• • Hector Boece - Historia Scotorum
  • Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7-8); first publication

1528

• • Baltissare Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier

1531

• • Michael Servetus - De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")
  • Henry Cornelius Agrippa - Book One of De occulta philosophia libri tres
  • Paracelsus - Opus Paramirum (written in St. Gallen).

1532

• • Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
  • François Rabelais - Pantagruel
  • Feliciano de Silva - Don Florisel de Niquea

1533

• • Henry Cornelius Agrippa - Books Two and Three of De occulta philosophia libri tres

1534

• • Martin Luther's Bible translation
  • François Rabelais - Gargantua
  • Polydore Vergil - Historia Anglica

1535

• • John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners - Huon of Bordeaux

1536

• • John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (in Latin)
  • Paracelsus - Die große Wundarzney.

1538

• • Hélisenne de Crenne - Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours

1539

• • Sir Thomas Elyot - The Castel of Helth

1540

• • Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland
  • The Byrth of Mankynde; the first printed book in English on obstetrics, and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates.

1541

• • George Buchanan
    • Baptistes
    • Jephtha
  • Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh - Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

1542

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

1543

• • Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
  • Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)

1544

• • Cardinal John Fisher - Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Queen Katherine Parr
  • John Leland - Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae

1545

• • Roger Ascham - Toxophilus
  • Bernard Etxepare - Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
  • Sir John Fortescue - De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
  • Queen Katherine Parr - Prayers or Meditations; the first book published by an English queen under her own name

1546

• • Sir John Prise of Brecon - Yn y lhyvyr hwnn (first book in Welsh; anonymous)
  • François Rabelais - Le tiers livre

1547

• • Gruffudd Hiraethog - Oll synnwyr pen Kembero ygyd (posthumous collection of Welsh proverbs made by William Salesbury)
  • Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian)
  • Queen Katherine Parr - The Lamentation of a Sinner
  • William Salesbury - A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe

1549

• • Johannes Aal - Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)
  • The Complaynt of Scotland

1550

• • Martin Bucer - De regno Christi
  • The Facetious Nights of Straparola published in Italian. The first European storybook to contain fairy-tales.

1552

• • François Rabelais - Le quart livre
  • Gerónimo de Santa Fe - Hebræomastix (posthumous)
  • 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.

1553

• • Francesco Patrizi - La Città felice ("The Happy City")

1554

• • anon - Lazarillo de Tormes

1559

• • The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remains in use until the mid-17th century and becomes the first English Prayer Book in America.
  • Jorge de Montemayor - Diana
  • Pavao Skalić - Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon

1560

• • Jacques Grévin - Jules César
  • William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson - Geneva Bible

1562

• • William Bullein - Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes

1563

• • John Foxe - Foxe's Book of Martyrs

1564

• • John Dee - Monas Hieroglyphica

1565

• • Camillo Porzio - La Congiura dei baroni

1567

• • Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque)
  • Magdeburg Centuries, vols X-XI
  • William Salesbury - Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ (translation of New Testament into Welsh)
  • Séon Carsuel, Bishop of the Isles - Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (translation of Knox's Book of Common Order into Classical Gaelic)

1569

• • Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1

1571

• • François de Belleforest - La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")
  • Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma (first printing in Irish)

1572

• • Friedrich Risner - Opticae thesaurus
  • Turba Philosophorum

1576

• • Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
  • George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
  • The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies

1577

• • Richard Eden - The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies
  • Thomas Hill - The Gardener's Labyrinth
  • Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande

1578

• • George Best - A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher
  • John Florio - First Fruits
  • Jaroš Griemiller - Rosarium philosophorum
  • Gabriel Harvey - Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae
  • John Lyly - Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit

1579

• • Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse
  • Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses

1581

• • Barnabe Riche - Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme

1582

• • George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia
  • Richard Hakluyt - Divers Voyages
  • John Leland - A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine (posthumous translation)

1583

• • Philip Stubbes - The Anatomy of Abuses

1584

• • James VI of Scotland - Some Reulis and Cautelis
  • David Powel - Historie of Cambria
  • Reginald Scot - The Discovery of Witchcraft

1585

• • Miguel de Cervantes - La Galatea
  • William Davies - Y drych Cristianogawl

1586

• • John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland
  • John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne
  • George Puttenham (attr.) - The Arte of English Poesie
  • Luis Barahona de Soto - Primera parte de la Angélica

1588

• • Thomas Hariot - A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
  • Thomas Nashe - The Anatomie of Absurditie

1590

• • Thomas Lodge - Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie
  • Thomas Nashe - An Almond for a Parrat

1592

• • Robert Greene - Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
  • Gabriel Harvey - Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
  • Richard Johnson - Nine Worthies of London

1594

• • Sir John Davis - The Seamans Secrets
  • Richard Hooker - Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

1595

• • Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous) - Defense of Poesy, a.k.a. An Apologie for Poetrie

1596

• • Sir Walter Raleigh - The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana

1597

• • Francis Bacon Essays

1598

• • John Bodenham - Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
  • King James VI of Scotland - The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
  • Francis Meres - Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury
  • John Stow - Survey of London

1599

• • John Bodenham - Wits' Theater