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-	[[Image:Illustration by Gustave Doré, 1873.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' by François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré]]	+	#redirect[[16th century]]
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-	Titles: ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' - ''[[I Modi]]''	+
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-	[[Image:Clément Marot.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]]'' ([[1535]]) by [[Clément Marot]]]]	+
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-	Literature in the [[16th century]] was still the [[province]] of a [[happy few]], the [[movable type printing press]] was only a recent invention. Important books include ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' by Rabelais, ''[[In Praise of Folly]]'' by Erasmus, the anonymously published ''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' and ''[[Heptameron]]'' by the Marguerite de Navarre.	+
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-	[[Medieval romance]]s were reduced to cheap and abrupt plots resembling modern [[comic book]]s. Neither were the first collections of novels necessarily prestigious projects. They appeared with an enormous variety from folk tales over jests to stories told by [[Boccaccio]] and [[Chaucer]], now venerable authors.	+
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-	A more prestigious market of romances developed in the 16th century, with multi-volume works aiming at an audience which would subscribe to this production. The criticism levelled against romances by Chaucer's pilgrims grew in response both to the trivialisations and to the extended multi-volume "romances". Romances like the ''[[Amadis de Gaula]]'' led their readers into dream worlds of knighthood and fed them with ideals of a past no one could revitalise, or so the critics complained.	+
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-	Italian authors like [[Niccolò Machiavelli|Machiavelli]] were among those who brought the novel into a new format: while it remained a story of intrigue, ending in a surprising point, the observations were now much finer: how did the protagonists manage their intrigue? How did they keep their secrets, what did they do when others threatened to discover them?	+
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-	Curiosities included ''[[Hermaphroditus]]'', ''[[Book of Kisses]]'', ''[[Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman]]'' and ''[[The Book of the Prick]]''.	+
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-	==Titles==	+
-	*''[[The Unfortunate Traveller]]'' - [[Thomas Nashe]]	+
-	*''[[Foxe's Book of Martyrs]]'' - [[John Foxe]]	+
-	*''[[Books of secrets]]'' by various	+
-	*''[[I Modi]]'' by [[Pietro Aretino]]	+
-	*''[[The Book of the Courtier]]'' by [[Baldassare Castiglione]]	+
-	*''[[Utopia (Novel)|Utopia]]'' by [[Thomas More]]	+
-	*''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' by [[Rabelais]]	+
-	*''[[In Praise of Folly]]'' by [[Erasmus]]	+
-	*''[[Heptameron]]'' by [[Queen of Navarre]]	+
-	*''[[De humani corporis fabrica|De humani corporis fabrica libri septem]]'' ''(On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)'' – [[Vesalius|Andreas Vesalius]]	+
-	*''[[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium]]'' ''(On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)'' – [[Nicolaus Copernicus]]	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	*[[New literature published in the 16th century]]	+
-	*[[Births and deaths in 16th century literature]]	+
-	*[[16th century in poetry]]	+
-	*[[Early Modern literature]]	+
-	*[[Renaissance literature]]	+
-	*[[17th century literature]]	+
-	*[[Emblem book]]s	+
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