1530 in literature
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.
- unknown dates
- * First complete edition of the 'Zürich Bible', Huldrych Zwingli's translation into German printed by Christoph Froschauer, is published.
- *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.
New books
Prose
- Otto Brunfels – Herbarum vivae eicones
- Erasmus – A handbook on manners for children
- William Tyndale – ''The Practice of Prelates''
Drama
- Henry Medwall – Nature
- John Heywood – ''The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler''
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo – Rime
- Girolamo Fracastoro – Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
- Hans Sachs – ''Das Schlaraffenland''
Births
- July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian
- August 2 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist
- November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, philosopher and essayist
- Unknown dates
- *Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish playwright and poet
- *Jean Bodin, French political philosopher
- *François de Belleforest, French poet and translator
- *Pey de Garros, Occitan poet writing in Gascon
- *Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet
- *Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator
- *Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet also writing in Latin
- *William Stevenson, English clergyman and presumed playwright
- Approximate years
- *Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
- *Richard Tarlton, English actor
Deaths
- April 27 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Neapolitan poet, humanist and epigrammist also writing in Latin
- April 28 – Niklaus Manuel, Swiss playwright writing in German and artist
- August 28 – Gerold Edlibach, Swiss chronicler
- December 22 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist writer
- Unknown date – Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana
- probable – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright