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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1546.

Events

• July 17 – Peter Faber, appointed by Pope Paul III to act as a peritus on behalf of the Holy See at the Council of Trent, arrives in Rome; exhausted by his journey; he dies a fortnight later.^[1]
• unknown date – Francisco de Moraes visits Paris for the second time, obtaining inspiration for his Palmerin d'Angleterre.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Sir John Prise of Brecon (anonymously) – Yn y lhyvyr hwnn (first book printed in Welsh)^[3]
• François Rabelais – Le Tiers Livre^[4]

Drama

• Sperone Speroni – Canace (published)^[5]

Poetry

• See 1546 in poetry

Births

• March 27 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (died 1625)
• May 21 – Madeleine de l'Aubespine, French poet and patron (died 1596)
• October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, German Lutheran pastor, composer and music theorist (died 1597)^[6]
• unknown dates
  • Philippe Desportes, French poet (died 1606)^[7]
  • Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (died 1619)^[8]
  • Veronica Franco, Venetian poet and courtesan (died 1591)^[9]
  • Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech lexicographer, publisher and writer (died 1599)

Deaths

• February 18 – Martin Luther, German theologian and reformer, 62^[10]
• April 7 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian, 55^[11]
• August 1 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian, 40^[1]
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French humanist writer and printer, 37 (executed for heresy)^[12]

References

1. "Blessed Peter Faber", ucanews
2. Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Classe de Sciencias Moraes, Politicas e Bellas-Lettras (in Portuguese). A Academia. 1877. pp. 85–86.
3. National Library of Wales (1989). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal (in Welsh). Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 118.
4. Joseph A. Dane (1 January 2003). The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality and Bibliographical Method. University of Toronto Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8020-8775-1.
5. Rossiter Johnson; Dora Knowlton Ranous (1906). The Literature of Italy, 1265-1907: Flamini, F. A history of Italian literature (1265-1907). National Alumni. p. 177.
6. A. Schumann (1891). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie / Schneegaß, Cyriacus (in German). Vol. 32. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 92–96. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
7. Jean Balsamo. Philippe Desports (1546-1606) Volume 62 of Actes et colloques. Editor, Contributor, Jean Balsamo. Publisher, Klincksieck, 2000
8. sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 486.
9. Rinaldina Russell (1994). Italian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-313-28347-5.
10. Robert Kolb (1 December 1999). Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620. Baker Books. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-4412-3720-0.
11. Gross, Ernie. This Day in Religion. New York:Neal-Schuman, 1990. ISBN 1-55570-045-4
12.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dolet, Étienne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 387–388.