1541 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541.
Events
- Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
- Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
- unknown dates
- *The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
- *The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
- *John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.
New books
Prose
- George Buchanan
- *Baptistes
- *Jephtha
- Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia
Drama
Poetry
- Anonymous – The Schole House of Women
- Francesco Berni – Orlando innamorato
- Jacques Pelletier du Mans – ''Ars Poetica''
Births
- January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet
Deaths
- April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet
- August
- *Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet
- *Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer
- unknown date – Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet