1530 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1530.

Events

• January – The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
• May – Tyndale's Bible is publicly burned in England as heretical.
• 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 and leaves Nuremberg.
• Earliest likely date for first printing of the Middle English tail-rhyme chivalric romance Sir Isumbras and of Sir Lamwell.
• Approximate date for first printing of Henry Medwall's late 15th century English play Nature.

New books

• Erasmus – A handbook on manners for children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus)
• William Tyndale – The Practice of Prelates

New drama

• John Heywood – The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler (approximate date)

Poetry

Main article: 1530 in poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Rime
• Girolamo Fracastoro – Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
• Hans Sachs – Das Schlaraffenland

Births

• July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (died 1601)
• August 2 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (died 1606)
• November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, philosopher and essayist (died 1563)
• date unknown
  • Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1599)
  • François de Belleforest, French poet and translator (died 1582)
  • Pey de Garros, Occitan poet writing in Gascon (died 1585)
  • Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet (died 1606)
  • Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566)
  • Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet also writing in Latin (died 1584)
  • William Stevenson, English clergyman and presumed playwright (died 1575)
• Approximate date
  • Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher (died 1593)
  • Richard Tarlton, English actor (died 1588)

Deaths

• Probably late 1529 or early this year – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright (born 1468)
• April 27 (one source states August 6) – Jacopo Sannazaro, Neapolitan poet, humanist and epigrammist also writing in Latin (born 1458)
• April 28 – Niklaus Manuel, Swiss playwright writing in German and artist (born 1484)
• August 28 - Gerold Edlibach, Swiss chronicler (born 1454)
• December 22 - Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist writer (born 1470)
• date unknown Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana (born 1440)