1530 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1530.

Events

 * 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.

Prose

 * Otto Brunfels – Herbarum vivae eicones (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)