April – As a hostage at IperoiginTupi territory, José de Anchieta composes De Beata Virgine Dei Matre (The Blessed Virgin Mary), a devotional poem that is among the early accomplishments in Brazilian literature.[4]
May – The Ottoman poet and historian Mustafa Âlî accepts a post in Aleppo Eyalet. On his way there he visits his mentor, Ramazanoğlu Piri Mehmet Paşa, in Adana.[6]
June 27 – Gómez Suárez de Figueroa fails to return to his native Peru from Seville. After November, he begins signing his name Garcilaso de la Vega, a step toward Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, his literary signature.[7]
AtBasel in the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Dutch physician Johann Weyer publishes De praestigiis daemonum, with its rationalist interpretation of witchcraft. It proposes that accused witches are "deluded victims" rather than instruments of the Devil. Though rejected by "witch-hunters", De praestigiis sells well and will inspire Reginald Scot's refutation of magic.[15] Also in Basel, Pietro Perna prints Bernardino Ochino's Dialogi XXX (Thirty Dialogues) criticizing the Radical Reformation. Their apparent preaching of polygamy is used against him by the Daig, causing him and his family to be banished from the city.[16]
John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, known later as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, becomes "the most influential book" of the Elizabethan era "upon the formation of English Protestant identity and nationhood."[17]
In the Kingdom of Poland, Stanisław Orzechowski publishes Rozmowa, albo Dyjalog około egzekucyjej polskiej korony (Conversation, or a Dialogue about Government of the Polish Crown), with allegorical engravings and designs resembling hieroglyphs. It defends the Catholic Church in Poland as an ideal political model, so marking Orzechowski's own transition from Lutheranism.[21]
Remonstrance au peuple de France (Remonstrance to the People of France)
Responce aux injures et calomnies, de je ne sçay quels predicans et ministres de Geneve (Response to the Insults and Calumnies of Some Preachers and Ministers of Geneva)
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^Timperley, C. H. (1839). The Dictionary of Printer and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern. H. Johnson. p. 336. OCLC1000427077.
^Butterworth, Emily (2016). The Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France. Oxford University Press. pp. 103–115. ISBN978-0-19-966230-2.
^Klooster, Fred H. (1986). "Ursinus' Primacy in the Composition of the Heidelberg Catechism". In Derk J. Visser (ed.). Controversy and Conciliation: The Reformation and the Palatinate 1559–1583. Pickwick Publications. pp. 93–95. ISBN978-0-915138-73-9.
^Fleischer, Cornell H. (1986). Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541–1600). Princeton University Press. p. 41. ISBN0-691-05464-9.
^Steigman, Jonathan D. (2005). La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America. The University of Alabama Press. pp. 16–17 and 24. ISBN978-0-8173-8432-6.
^Frick, David A. (1989). Polish Sacred Philology in the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation: Chapters in the History of the Controversies (1551–1632). University of California Press. pp. 67–80. ISBN0-520-09740-8. Pociūtė, Dainora (2015). "The Church and the Book". In Marius Iršėnas; Tojana Račiūnaitė (eds.). The Lithuanian Millennium: History, Art and Culture. Vilnius Academy of Arts Press. pp. 174–176. ISBN978-609-447-097-4.
^Iorga, Nicolae (1925). "Despot-Voda". Universul Literar (32): 3.
^Mareș, Ioan (2010). "Date referitoare la bisericile Buna Vestire (Intrarea Maicii Domnului în Biserică/Vovidenia) și Sfîntul Theodor (Sfîntul Toader), dispărute din Suceava". Suceava. Anuarul Muzeului Bucovinei (XXXVII): 150–151.
^Luthar, Oto; Grdina, Igor; Šašel Kos, Marjeta; Svoljšak, Petra; Kos, Dušan; Kos, Peter; Štih, Peter; Brglez, Alja; Pogačar, Martin (2008). The Land Between: A History of Slovenia. Peter Lang. p. 212. ISBN978-3-631-57011-1.
^Robin, Diana (2007). Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy. University of Chicago Press. p. 199. ISBN0-226-72156-6.
^Gaskill, Malcolm (2010). Witchcraft. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN978-0-19-923695-4.
^Biagioni, Mario (2016). The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe: A Lasting Heritage. Brill. pp. 38–39. ISBN978-90-04-33577-6.
^Timperley, C. H. (1839). The Dictionary of Printer and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern. H. Johnson. p. 337. OCLC1000427077.
