1545 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545.
Events
- April 2 – Italian scholar Pietro Bembo, on reading Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Description of Africa, a translation from dictation by Leo Africanus, comments: "I cannot imagine how a man could have so much detailed information about these things."
New books
Prose
- Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
- Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna
- Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
- Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae
- Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations
- Thomas Phaer – ''The Boke of Chyldren''
Poetry
- ''See 1545 in poetry''
Births
- May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian
- June 6 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite writer
- unknown date
- * George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems
- * Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer
- Probable year – John Gerard, English botanist and author of herbal
Deaths
- April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist
- April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
- July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet