1574 in literature

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Events

• Creation of the original Exercicio quotidiano (religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language).

New books

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf - Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures
• Matthias Flacius et al. - Magdeburg Centuries
• Nicolás Monardes - Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales

Poetry

• See 1574 in poetry

Births

• September - Thomas Gataker, English theologian (d. 1654)
• September 18 - Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1640)
• November 4 - Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist (d. 1646)
• date unknown
  • Richard Barnfield, English poet (d. 1627)
  • Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian (d. 1623)
  • John Day, English dramatist (d. c. 1640)
  • Feng Menglong, Chinese vernacular poet (d. 1645)
  • Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist (d. 1635)

Deaths

• January 30 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher (b. 1502)
• April 17 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500)
• June 27 - Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists (b. 1511)
• November 7 - Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author (b. 1510)
• November 28 - Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1502)
• date unknown
  • Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo (b. 1525)
  • Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. 1512)
  • Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer (b. 1511)
  • Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian (b. 1542)