1538 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1538.
Events
- December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.
New books
Prose
- Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
- Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght
- Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World
- William Turner – ''Libellus de re herbaria''
Drama
- John Bale
- *Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama
- *Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked
- Georg Wickram – ''Der treue Eckart''
Poetry
- Sir David Lyndsay – The Complaynte and Testament of a Popinjay
- Clément Marot – ''Œuvres de Clément Marot''
Births
Deaths
unknown dates- *Germain de Brie, French humanist scholar and poet
- * Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright