1541 in poetry

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French language

 * Jacques Peletier, translation from the Latin of Horace, Ars Poetica, France
 * Clément Marot, Trente psaumes de David, translation of the Book of Psalms, France
 * Loys Bourgeois sometime between this year and 1551, Psautier huguenot, Switzerland

Other

 * Anonymous, The Schole House of Women [sic], sometimes attributed to Edward Gosynhyll, but which he replied to in The Prayse of all Women [sic] 1542; two other replies: A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours [sic] 1542, by Robert Burdet and The Defence of Women 1560, Edward More; Great Britain
 * Francesco Berni Orlando innamorato, heroic-comic poem, published posthumously, Italy

Births
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Deaths
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 * Giovanni Guidiccioni (born 1480), Italian
 * Gül Baba (born unknown), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
 * Celio Calcagnini (born 1479), Italian, Latin-language poet