1538 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1538. Events December 20 – Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal. New books Prose Hélisenne de Crenne – Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours Sir Thomas Elyot – The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English) Paracelsus – Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World William Turner – Libellus de re herbaria (Handbook of Herbs)