title: 1530 in literature
text: # 1530 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1530.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January – The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
  * May – The Tyndale Bible is publicly burned in England as heretical.
  * unknown dates
     * First complete edition of the 'Zürich Bible', Huldrych Zwingli's translation into German printed by Christoph Froschauer, is published.
     * An edition of Desiderius Erasmus's Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros Laurentii Vallae is the first book to use the Roman form of the Garamond typeface cut by Claude Garamond.
     * Paracelsus finishes writing Paragranum and leaves Nuremberg.
     * This is the earliest likely date for first printing of the Middle English tail-rhyme chivalric romance Sir Isumbras and of Sir Lamwell.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Otto Brunfels – Herbarum vivae eicones (third part: 1536)
  * Erasmus – A handbook on manners for children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus)
  * William Tyndale – The Practice of Prelates
  
  ### 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)
  