1561 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1561. Events August 21 – The Peresopnytsia Gospels are completed. September – Serbian Orthodox hieromonks Jovan Maleševac and Matija Popović begin to collaborate with the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar on printing the New Testament and other religious books in Cyrillic letters, at Urach in Germany. unknown dates William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, written in 1553, is first published anonymously in London. It is an early example of extended fiction (and specifically of horror fiction) in English, but it appears to have been suppressed and no copies survive. The Tian Yi Ge library in Ningbo is established by Fan Qin in Ming dynasty China. New books Prose John Calvin – Institution of the Christian Religion (English translation by Thomas Norton) Bartolomé de las Casas – History of the Indies (completed; first published 1875) Gabriele Fallopius – Observationes anatomicae Francesco Guicciardini (posthumously) – Storia d'Italia (History of Italy, first 16 of 20 books) Sir Thomas Hoby – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano, translation) Julius Caesar Scaliger – Poetices