1530 in literature

Drama

• Henry Medwall – Nature (first printing)
• John Heywood – The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler

Poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Rime
• Girolamo Fracastoro – Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
• Hans Sachs – Das Schlaraffenland

Births

• July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (died 1601)
• August 2 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (died 1606)
• November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, philosopher and essayist (died 1563)
• Unknown dates
• Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1599)
• Jean Bodin, French political philosopher (died 1596)
• François de Belleforest, French poet and translator (died 1582)
• Pey de Garros, Occitan poet writing in Gascon (died 1585)
• Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet (died 1606)
• Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566)
• Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet also writing in Latin (died 1584)
• William Stevenson, English clergyman and presumed playwright (died 1575)
• Approximate years
• Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher (died 1593)
• Richard Tarlton, English actor (died 1588)

Deaths

• April 27 (one source states August 6) – Jacopo Sannazaro, Neapolitan poet, humanist and epigrammist also writing in Latin (born 1458)
• April 28 – Niklaus Manuel, Swiss playwright writing in German and artist (born 1484)
• August 28 – Gerold Edlibach, Swiss chronicler (born 1454)
• December 22 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist writer (born 1470)
• Unknown date – Molla, Indian poet writing in Telugu, translator of the Ramayana (born 1440)
• probable – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright (born 1468)

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