1547 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Works published

France

• Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans, an dizain,
• Antoine Héroët, Opuscules d'amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poetes ("Booklets of Love by Heroet, La Borderie and other divine poets"), including Héroët's Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour; published in Lyon, France
• Marguerite de Navarre, Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, long devotional poem

Other

• Martynas Mažvydas, Catechismus ("The Simple Words of Catechismus"), the first printed Lithuanian book, includes a dedication in Latin "To the Great Duchy of Lithuania", two prefaces: in Latin (in prose), and in Lithuanian (in verse), a catechism, and the book of songs; the rhymed preface in Lithuanian, "The Appeal of The Small Book Itself Unto Lithuanians and Samogitians", has been called "the first authentic verse in Lithuanian"

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Faizi (died 1595), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
• Johann Fischart born this year or 1546 (died 1591), German
• Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Richard Stanyhurst" (died 1618), Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 18 – Pietro Bembo (born 1470), Italian cardinal, poet and writer
• January 19 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (born c. 1517), English poet and aristocrat, executed for treason

• Also:
  • Lazare de Baïf (born 1496), French poet, diplomat and humanist
  • Meerabai मीराबाई (born 1498), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Indian, Hindu poet-saint, mystical poetess whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature