1530 in literature

• 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 – '''' (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) ==References==