1545 in literature

Events

• April 2 – Italian scholar Pietro Bembo, on reading Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Description of Africa, a translation from dictation by Leo Africanus, comments: "I cannot imagine how a man could have so much detailed information about these things."

  New books

Prose

• Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
• Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna
• Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
• Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae
• Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations
• Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren

  Poetry

• See 1545 in poetry

  Births

• May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian
• June 6 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite writer
• unknown date
• * George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems
• * Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer
• Probable year – John Gerard, English botanist and author of herbal

  Deaths

• April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist
• April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
• July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet