1552 in literature

Events

• June – Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
• unknown dates
• *Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Swiss Romansh language, Christiauna fuorma, a catechism.
• *Belgrade printing house is established.
• *Ralph Roister Doister, the first known comedy in the English, is written by London schoolmaster Nicholas Udall for his pupils to perform.

  New books

Prose

• Book of Common Prayer
• Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
• François Rabelais – Le Quart Livre
• Gerónimo de Santa Fe – Hebræomastix
• Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis , composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

  Drama

• David Lyndsay – A Satire of the Three Estates
• Hans Sachs – Der Bauer im Fegefeuer

  Poetry

• See 1552 in poetry

  Births

• February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet
• unknown dates
• *Jean Bertaut, French poet
• *Philemon Holland, English translator and schoolmaster
• *Edmund Spenser, English poet
• probable – Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet

  Deaths

• June 10 – Alexander Barclay, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator
• October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German theologian
• December 11 – Paolo Giovio, Italian historian and biographer
• December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist