1543 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1543.

Events

• unknown date – In France:
• The Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris issues its first Index of prohibited (religious) books.
• Guillaume Rouillé sets up as a bookseller in Lyon.

New books

Prose

• Mikael Agricola – Abckiria (first book printed in Finnish)
• Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
• Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras
• Fernán Pérez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre
• Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books)
• Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio Paleario)

Drama

• Lodovico Dolce – Hecuba

Poetry

• See 1543 in poetry

Births

• February 4 – Giovanni Francesco Fara, Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman
• February 25 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, politician, historian and poet (died 1603)
• November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (died 1584)
• Unknown dates
• Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet (died 1588)
• Thomas Deloney, silk weaver and writer (died in or before 1600 in literature)
• Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet (died 1614)
• Thomas Twyne, Elizabethan translator and physician (died 1613)
• Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet (died 1593)

Deaths

• May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
• July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian (born 1465)
• Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book (born 1490)

References