1530 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1530.

Events[]

January – The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
May – The Tyndale Bible is publicly burned in England as heretical.^[1]
unknown dates
- An edition of Desiderius 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.
- This is the earliest likely date for first printing of the Middle English tail-rhyme chivalric romance Sir Isumbras and of Sir Lamwell.^[2]

Otto Brunfels – Herbarum vivae eicones (third part: 1536)
Erasmus – A handbook on manners for children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus)
William Tyndale – The Practice of Prelates

Henry Medwall – Nature (first printing)^[3]
John Heywood – The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler^[4]

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)
Unknown dates
- Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1599)
- Jean Bodin, French political philosopher (died 1596)
- 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 years
- Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher (died 1593)
- Richard Tarlton, English actor (died 1588)

April 27 (one source states August 6)^[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)
Unknown date – Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana (born 1440)
probable – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright (born 1468)^[7]

^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Kent Cartwright (21 January 2010). A Companion to Tudor Literature. John Wiley & Sons. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-4443-1722-0.
^ [Anonymus AC09821254] (1810). The Ancient British Drama. William Miller. p. 2.
^ Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
^ Bondanella, Peter; Bondanella, Julia Conaway, eds. (1979). "Sannazaro, Jacopo". Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 462.
^ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.