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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1528.

Events

• October 2 – William Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man (The Obedience of a Christen man, and how Christen rulers ought to govern) is printed in Antwerp for clandestine distribution in England.

New books

• Baltissare Castiglione – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano)
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Ancien Testament (translation of the Old Testament into French)
• Francisco Delicado – Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman (Retrato de la Loçana andaluza)
• Desiderius Erasmus – Ciceronianus
• Jean Fernel – Cosmotheoria
• Martin Luther – Confession Concerning Christ's Supper (Vom Abendmahl Christi, Bekenntnis)
• William Tyndale – The Obedience of a Christian Man

New drama

• Ludovico Ariosto
  • La Lena
  • Il Negromante (approximate date of first performance)

New poetry

Main article: 1528 in poetry

• Anna Bijns – Refrains

Births

• November 2 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, born Peter Lotz, German scholar and Latin poet (died 1560)
• unknown dates
  • Rémy Belleau, French poet (died 1577)^[1]
  • Birbal, born Maheshdas Bhat, Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court (died 1586)
  • Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (died 1602)
  • Henri Estienne, French printer and classical scholar (died 1598)
  • António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (died 1569)
  • Atagi Fuyuyasu (安宅 冬康), Japanese samurai and poet (died 1564)
  • Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (died 1613)
  • Thomas Whythorne, English composer and autobiographer (died 1595)

Deaths

• March 10 – Balthasar Hubmaier, German Anabaptist theologian (born c.1480)
• November 17 – Jakob Wimpfeling, humanist and theologian (born 1450)
• unknown dates
  • Al-Birjandi, Persian scientist
  • Richard Hyrde, English scholar and translator^[2]
  • Erhard Ratdolt, German printer (born 1442)
• probable – Giorgio Anselmo, Italian physician and Latin poet (born c.1458)^[3]

References

1. Gustave Masson (1861). Class Book of French Literature. p. 36.
2. Katharina M. Wilson (1987). Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Georgia Press. p. 476. ISBN 978-0-8203-0865-4.
3. Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (31 May 2011). Modern Poets. Harvard University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-674-05575-9.