This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.
Events
Summer – The engraver and publisher
Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an
antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the
Council of Brabant.[1]
Domingo de Vico – Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue"; later prohibited by the
Spanish Inquisition)[4]
Tripartito del Christianissimo y consolatorio doctor Juan Gerson, the first Mexican book with woodcut illustrations, published by
Juan Pablos.[5]
William Turner – Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia (Brief and Succinct Account of Chief Birds Mentioned by
Pliny and
Aristotle; first English book devoted wholly to birds)
^"Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).
^Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg.
[1] Accessed 21 January 2008.