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Irish or
France
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).
Events
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Simwnt Fychan appointed "pencerdd", or senior bard, by
Elizabeth I of England
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*
Siôn Phylip ordained as a master poet at the second
Eisteddfod
In Welsh culture, an ''eisteddfod'' is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.
The term ''eisteddfod'', which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: , meaning 'sit', and , meaning 'be', means, a ...
in
Caerwys
Caerwys is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales. It is just under two miles from the A55 North Wales Expressway and one mile from the A541 Mold-Denbigh road. At the 2001 Census, the population of Caerwys community was 1,315, with a tota ...
Works published
England
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*
Thomas Drant
Thomas Drant (c.1540–1578) was an English clergyman and poet. Work of his on prosody was known to Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. He was in the intellectual court circle known as the 'Areopagus', and including, as well as Sidney, Edward ...
, ''Epigrams and Sentences Spirituall in Vers'', translated from
St. Gregory Nazianzus[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
*
Thomas Howell (poet)
Thomas Howell (fl. 1568), was an English poet.
Howell was probably a native of Dunster in Somerset. He published in 1568 "The Arbor of Amitie, wherein is comprised pleasant Poems and pretie Poesies, set foorth by Thomas Howell, Gentleman", 8vo, ...
, ''The Arbor of Amitie''
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* John Skelton, ''Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton'', edited by J. Stow;][ published posthumously (died ]1529
Year 1529 ( MDXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events January–March
* January 6 – Basarab VI is installed as the new Prince of Wallachia (now in Romania) in the capital at Târgoviște, days ...
) by Thomas Marshe[Rollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, ''The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century'', p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company]
* George Turberville
George Turberville, or Turbervile (about 1540 – before 1597) was an England, English poet.
Life
He was the second son of Henry Turberville of Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, and nephew of James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter. The Turbervilles w ...
, ''A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue'', translation of Dominic Mancini
Dominic Mancini () was an Italian monk who visited England in 1482–3. He witnessed the events leading up to Richard III seizing the English crown. He left in 1483 and wrote a report of what he had witnessed, titling his text ''De Occupatione Re ...
's ''De quatour virtutibus''[
]
Other
*François d'Amboise
François d'Amboise (1550 – 1619) was a French jurist and writer. He was counsellor to the Parlement of Brittany and advocate general to the Grand Conseil.
Biography
François d'Amboise was born in Paris, the son of Jean d'Amboise, ord ...
, ''Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency
Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency ( – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of Religion. He served under five French kings (Loui ...
'', France
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* Petar Hektorović
Petar Hektorović (1487 – 13 March 1572) was a Croatian writer and polymath.
Hektorović, also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo, was born and died in Stari Grad, Hvar. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and ...
, '' Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje'' ("Fishing and Fishermen's Talk"), three-part pastoral and philosophic narrative poem written in Croatian and published in Venice
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in poetry" article:
* February 2 – Peter Révay (died 1622
Events
January–May
* January 7 – The Holy Roman Empire and Transylvania sign the Peace of Nikolsburg.
* February 8 – King James I of England dissolves the Parliament of England, English Parliament.
* March 12 – ...
), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary
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, state official, soldier and historian
* March 30 – Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton (; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said "An amba ...
(died 1639
Events
January–March
* January 19 – Hämeenlinna () is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia.
*c. January – The first printing press in British North America is ...
), English
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* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
diplomat, author and poet
* September 3 – Adriano Banchieri
Adriano Banchieri ( Bologna, 3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.
Biography
He w ...
(died 1634
Events
January–March
* January 12 – After suspecting that he will be dismissed, Albrecht von Wallenstein, supreme commander of the Holy Roman Empire's Army, demands that his colonels sign a declaration of personal loyalty ...
), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet
* September 5 – Tommaso Campanella
Tommaso Campanella (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Campanella was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for he ...
(died 1639
Events
January–March
* January 19 – Hämeenlinna () is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia.
*c. January – The first printing press in British North America is ...
), philosopher and poet
* Also:
** Yuan Hongdao
Yuan Hongdao (, style name Zhonglang, 1568–1610) was a scholar-official and one of the greatest Chinese poets and littérateurs of the Ming Dynasty. He is also a well known author on Pure Land Buddhism.Jones, Charles B. 2009“Yuan Hongdao and ...
(died 1610
Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broa ...
), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty
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and one of the Three Yuan Brothers
** Gervase Markham
Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 – 3 February 1637) was an English poet and writer. He was best known for his work ''The English Huswife, The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woma ...
, birth year uncertain (died 1637
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy '' Le Cid'' is first performed, in Paris, France.
* January 16 – The siege of Nagpur ends in the modern-day Maharashtra state of India, as Kok Shah, the ...
), English
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
poet and writer
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in poetry" article:
* September 14 – Jan van Casembroot
Jan van Casembroot, Lord of Backerzele (also Jehan de Casembroot) (ca. 1525 – 14 September 1568) was a Flemish noble and poet. He was lord of Bekkerzeel, Zellik, Kobbegem, Berchem-Oudenaarde and Fenain.
Life
Jan Casembroot was born in Bruge ...
(born 1525
Year 1525 ( MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
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January–March
* January 21 – The Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others ...
), South Holland
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noble and poet
* December 23 – Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham (; 30 December 1568)"Ascham, Roger" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 617. was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his pr ...
(born c. 1515
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Year 1515 ( MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – King Louis XII of France dies of severe gout after a reign of 14 years, and his son-in-law, Franç ...
), English
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scholar, didactic writer and poet; died from a chill contracted when staying up all night to finish a New Year's Day poem for Queen Elizabeth I
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, whom he had tutored
* Abderrahman El Majdoub
Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub (, March 150626May 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub ibn Ayyad ibn Yaacub ibn Salama ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali, was a Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic. Many li ...
(born ''unknown''), Berber Moroccan poet
* Antoine Héroet (born ''unknown''), French
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* The French (band), ...
philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
* Luigi Tansillo
Luigi Tansillo (15101 December 1568) was an Italian Late Renaissance poet. Tansillo deserves a special place in the history of Italian poetry, for he constitutes the link between the classical lyric of the Cinquecento and the baroque lyric of the ...
(born 1510
Year 1510 (Roman numerals, MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 23 – An 18-year-old Henry VIII of England jousts anonymously at Richmond, London, Richmond, Surrey ...
), Italian poet of Petrarchan sonnet
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s and Marinist
Marinism (Italian: ''marinismo'', or ''secentismo'', "17th century") is the name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), following in particular ''La Lira'' and ''L'Ad ...
style
See also
* Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
* 16th century in poetry
Works published
* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.
* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works).
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England
* John Skelton (c. 1460� ...
* 16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
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1501
*Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid' ...
* Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
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* Elizabethan literature
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* French Renaissance literature
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* Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance. The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, ...
* Spanish Renaissance literature
Spanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Spanish Renaissance during the 15th and 16th centuries. .
Overview
Political, religious, literary, and military relations between Italy and Spain from the second half o ...
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...