1532 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1532.

Events

Uncertain dates

• The first complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
• William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England.
• The first edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
• Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).

New books

Prose

• Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
• Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi (first installment)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
• Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
• François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
• Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea

Poetry

Main article: 1532 in poetry

• Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine

Births

• February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
• November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)

Uncertain dates

• Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
• Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)

Probable year

• Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
• Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)

In literature

• The main action of Peter Shaffer's drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) opens this year.