1545 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1545. 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 (first book printed in Basque language) Sir John Fortescue – De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471) Catherine Parr – Prayers or Meditations (first book published by an English queen under her own name) Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren