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Events
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Works published
Great Britain
- Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women[1]
- Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes[1]
- John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes[1]
- William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text[1]
- Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms
France
- Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie[2]
- Pierre de Ronsard:
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
- Also:
- Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
- Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish[5]
- Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
- Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
- Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
- Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
- Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
- June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
- June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
- June 13 – Veronica Gambara (born 1485), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader
- November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
- Also:
- Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
- Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
- Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43
- ^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
- ^ "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications