This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1547.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
- September â Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist, poet and biographer (died c. 1615)
- September 22 â Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, poet, playwright and polymath (died 1590)
- September 29 â Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1616)
- Unknown dates
- Cristóbal Mosquera de Figueroa, Spanish poet (died 1610)
- Conrad Vetter, German Jesuit preacher and polemical writer (died 1622)
- Probable year â Maciej Stryjkowski, Polish historian and poet (died c. 1593)
Deaths
- January â Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar and poet (born 1470)
- January 19 â Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a founder of English Renaissance poetry (born 1516 or 1517)
- February 25 â Vittoria Colonna, Italian noblewoman and poet (born 1492)
- March 16 â François Vatable, French humanist scholar (born late 15th century)
- October or November â John Redford, English composer, poet and playwright (born c. 1500)
- Unknown dates
- Edward Hall, English historian, politician and lawyer (born 1497)
- Valentin Ickelshamer, German grammarian (born c. 1500)
- Johannes Mensing, German Dominican theologian (born 1477)
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