1552 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1552.

Events

 * June – Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
 * unknown dates
 * Giachem Bifrun produces the first printed book in the Swiss Romansh language (Putèr), Christiauna fuorma, a catechism.
 * Belgrade printing house is established.
 * Ralph Roister Doister, the first known comedy in the English, is written by London schoolmaster Nicholas Udall for his pupils to perform.

Prose

 * Book of Common Prayer (revised)
 * Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) (written 1542)
 * François Rabelais – Le Quart Livre
 * Gerónimo de Santa Fe (posthumously) – Hebræomastix
 * Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

Drama

 * David Lyndsay – A Satire of the Three Estates (first public performance)
 * Hans Sachs – Der Bauer im Fegefeuer

Poetry

 * See 1552 in poetry

Births

 * February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet (died 1630)
 * unknown dates
 * Jean Bertaut, French poet (died 1611)
 * Philemon Holland, English translator and schoolmaster (died 1637)
 * Edmund Spenser, English poet (died 1599)
 * probable – Cvijeta Zuzorić, Croatian poet (died 1648)

Deaths

 * June 10 – Alexander Barclay, probably Scottish-born English writer, cleric and translator (born c. 1476)
 * October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German theologian (born 1498)
 * December 11 – Paolo Giovio, Italian historian and biographer (born 1483)
 * December 30 – Francisco de Enzinas, Spanish-born Netherlandish scholar and humanist (born c. 1518)