1545 in literature

• 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."Crofton Black, "Leo Africanus's 'Descrittione dell'Africa' and Its Sixteenth-Century Translations", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 65 (2002), pp. 262–272.

• Roger Ascham – Toxophilus
• Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna{{cite book|author=Simon Gindikin|title=Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vhx--jfFN8IC&pg=PA1|date=1 January 1988|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-8176-3317-2|pages=1}}
• 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){{Cite book |last1=Norton |first1=Elizabeth |title=Lives of Tudor Women |date=2016 |publisher=Head of Zeus |isbn=9781784081768 |page=230}}
• Thomas Phaer – The Boke of Chyldren

• See 1545 in poetry

• May 1 – Franciscus Junius the elder, French theologian (died 02){{cite book|last1=Woodward|first1=Bernard Bolingbroke |last2=Cates|first2=William Leist Readwin |title=Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqoyEa3Ztu0C&pg=PA786|year=1872|publisher=Lee and Shepard|page=786}}
• June 6 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite writer (died 1614)
• unknown date
• George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
• Heinrich Bünting, German theologian and cartographer (died 1606)
• Probable year – John Gerard(e), English botanist and author of herbal (died 1612)

• April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born c. 1481)
• April 14 – Sir Thomas Clere, English poet
• July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, French poet (born c. 1520){{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England |author=Robin, Diana Maury |author2=Larsen, Anne R. |author3=Levin, Carole |name-list-style=amp |year=2007 |publisher=ABC-CLIO, Inc.}}

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