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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French).
Events
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Venetian poet and courtesan Veronica Franco painted in the style of Tintoretto, c.1575
Works published
Great Britain
- Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers[1]
- Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes, some prose but mostly poetry; in part, it recounts how Queen Elizabeth was received by the city of Bristow[1]
- George Gascoigne, The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire, the second, very expanded edition of A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 1573; includes "The Fruits of Warre" (the author's longest poem}) and "Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English" (see also The Whole Woorkes 1587)[1]
- John Rolland, The Court of Venus[1]
Other
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[2]
- Veronica Franco, Terze rime; Italian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, ''Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, is the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.
- Also:
- Edmund Bolton (died c. 1633), English historian and poet, born this year by his own account
- Cyril Tourneur (died 1626), English playwright and poet
- Sir William Vaughan, "Orpheus junior" (died 1641), Welsh writer, poet and colonial investor
- Henry Willobie (died 1596), English
Deaths
- April 10 (buried) – Anna Bijns (born 1493), Dutch
- August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (born 1503), Spanish
- Also:
- Giovanni Battista Pigna (born 1530), Italian, Latin-language poet[3]
- Adam Reusner (approximate date; born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
- William Stevenson (born 1530), English poet, author and clergyman; presumed playwright
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
- ^ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.