1532 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1532.

Events

unknown dates
- William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England, the first time an English-language writer's texts have been collected together as "Works".^[1]
- First edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
- First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
- Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).

Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi (first installment)
Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea

February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
Unknown dates
- Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
- Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
Probable year
- Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
- Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)

^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Charles Henry Cooper; Thompson Cooper (1858). Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1500-1585. Deighton, Bell. pp. 46–.