1542 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1542.

Events[edit]

Paul Fagius – Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
Edward Hall – The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke

December – Catherine Des Roches, French poet and writer (died 1587)
unknown date – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), Castilian poet and friar (died 1591)

January 10 – Gerard Geldenhouwer, Dutch historian (born 1482)^[3]
June 14 – Christoph von Scheurl, German humanist writer (born 1481)^[4]
October 11 – Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet (born 1503)^[5]
unknown date – Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, who wrote in the Leonese language (born c. 1474)

^ "A Florentine Tradesman's Diary", The Saturday Review, collected in The Living Age ..., ed. Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell, pub. Littell, Son & Company, 1884, pp. 52–53.
^ Matras, Yaron (2002). Romani: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-02330-0.
^ Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (1 January 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
^ Apocrypha. Brepols. 1998. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-503-50630-2.
^ Lindsey, Karen (1996). Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-201-40823-2.