1529 in literature
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- Henry Cornelius Agrippa - Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus.
- Hans Luft - A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a HusbandmanA Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a HusbandmanA proper dyaloge betwene a Gentilman and a Husbandman eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of the clergye was printed in two versions by "Hans Luft" of Antwerp in 1529...
- Philipp MelanchthonPhilipp MelanchthonPhilipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
- Commentary on the Colossians (with foreword by Martin LutherMartin LutherMartin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
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Births
- February 23 - Onofrio PanvinioOnofrio PanvinioThe erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius was an Italian historian and antiquary, who was librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese....
, Augustinian historian (d. 1568) - June 7 - Étienne PasquierÉtienne PasquierÉtienne Pasquier , French lawyer and man of letters, was born at Paris, on 7 June 1529 by his own account, according to others a year earlier. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549....
, poet and author (d. 1615) - December 11 - Fulvio OrsiniFulvio OrsiniFulvio Orsini was an Italian humanist, historian, and archaeologist. He was a scion of the Orsini family, one of the oldest, most illustrious, and for centuries most powerful of the Roman princely families, whose origins, when stripped of legend, can be traced back to a certain Ursus de Paro,...
, humanist historian (d. 1600) - date unknown - George PuttenhamGeorge PuttenhamGeorge Puttenham was a sixteenth-century English writer, literary critic, and notorious rake. He is generally considered to be the author of the enormously influential handbook on poetry and rhetoric, The Arte of English Poesie ....
, critic (d. 1590)
Deaths
- February 2 - Baldassare CastiglioneBaldassare CastiglioneBaldassare Castiglione, count of was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.-Biography:Castiglione was born into an illustrious Lombard family at Casatico, near Mantua, where his family had constructed an impressive palazzo...
, poet and author (b. 1478) - June 21 - John SkeltonJohn SkeltonJohn Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...
, poet (b. c. 1460) - date unknown
- Richard PynsonRichard PynsonRichard Pynson was one of the first printers of English books. The 500 books he printed were influential in the standardisation of the English language...
, printer (b. 1448) - Paulus Aemilius VeronensisPaulus Aemilius VeronensisPaulus Aemilius Veronensis was an Italian historian.He was born in Verona. He obtained such a reputation in his own country that he was invited to France c. 1499 in the reign of Charles VIII, in order to write in Latin the history of the kings of France, and was presented to a canonry in Notre...
, historian (b. c. 1455)
- Richard Pynson