Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France
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).
Events
Works published
*
Stephen Bateman, ''The Travayled Pylgrime'', translated from
Olivier de la Marche
Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502) was a courtier, soldier, chronicler and poet in the last decades of the independent Duchy of Burgundy. He was close to Charles the Bold, and after his death held the important position of maître d'hotel to his ...
's ''Le chevalier delibere''
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
*
Alonso de Ercilla
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (7 August 153329 November 1594) was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem '' La Araucana'', considered one ...
, ''
La Araucana'', an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part was published this year, the second in
1578
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1578 ( MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 13 – The Siege of Gvozdansko ends in the Kingdom of Croatia as Ottoman Empire troops led by Ferhad Pa ...
, when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in
1589
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The reign of Catherine de' Medici as Countess of Auvergne ends after 64 years and she is succeeded by her grandson, Charles de Valois.
* January 7 – The College of Sorbonne votes a re ...
'
Spain
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*
Barnabe Googe, ''The Ship of Safeguard''
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* Jan van der Noot, ''A theatre for Worldlings'', including poems translated into English by ]Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (; – 13 January 1599 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was an English poet best known for ''The Faerie Queene'', an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the House of Tudor, Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is re ...
from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in London[Web page title]
"Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography"
, "Chronology" section (at bottom of Chronology, Web page states: "Source: adapted from Willy Maley, ''A Spenser Chronology.''"), at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English website, retrieved September 24, 2009
* Thomas Underdowne, published anonymously, a translation from Latin
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, ''Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...
his Invective against Ibis''[
]
Births
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in poetry" article:
* April 16 – Sir John Davies
Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised)8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal ...
(died 1626
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Polish–Swedish War (1625–1629), Polish-Swedish War: Battle of Wallhof in Latvia – Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, defeats a Polish army.
* January 9 – Peter Minuit sail ...
), English poet and lawyer, attorney general in Ireland; not to be confused with his contemporary, John Davies of Hereford
John Davies of Hereford (c. 1565 – July 1618) was a writing-master and an Anglo-Welsh literature, Anglo-Welsh poet. He referred to himself as ''John Davies of Hereford'' (after the city where he was born) in order to distinguish himself from ...
(c. 1565
Year 1565 ( MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 3 – In the Tsardom of Russia, Ivan the Terrible originates the oprichnina (repression of the boyars (aristocrats) ...
–1618
Events
January–March
* January 6
** Jahangir, ruler of the Mughal Empire in northern India, gives an audience for the first time to a representative of the British East India Company, receiving Sir Thomas Roe at the capital at ...
)
* September 5 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (died 1645
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Long Parliament adopts the ''Directory for Public Worship'' in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, replacing the Book of Common Prayer ( 1559). Holy Days (other than Sundays) are not ...
), German officer and amateur poet
* October 18 – Giambattista Marino
Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) was a Neapolitan poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic '.
The ''Cambridge History of Italian Literature'' thought him to be "one of ...
(died 1625
Events
January–March
* January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
* February 3 &nda ...
), Italian poet famous for his long epic ''L'Adone''
* Also:
** Ján Bocatius (died 1621
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Şehzade Mehmed, the 15-year old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan Osman II, is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan be r ...
), Slovak
** Barnabe Barnes
Barnabe Barnes (c. 1571 – 1609) was an English poet. He is known for his Petrarchan love sonnets and for his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and culminating in an alleged attempted murder.
Early life
The third son ...
birth year uncertain, possibly 1568
Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 6 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Trium Nationum to the Diet of Torda convene i ...
or 1571
Year 1571 ( MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 11 – The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.
* January 23 – The Royal Exchange opens in Lond ...
(when baptised) (died 1609
Events
January–March
* January 12 – The Basque witch trials are started in Spain as the court of the Spanish Inquisition, Inquisition at Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of Zugarramurdi, and ...
), English
** Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625) was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset.
Origins
He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall, Somerset, Wraxall in Somerset, ...
(died 1625
Events
January–March
* January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
* February 3 &nda ...
), English poet, translator and courtier
** Geoffrey Keating
Geoffrey Keating (; – ) was an Irish historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became a Catholic priest and a poet.
Biography
It was generally believed unt ...
(Seathrún Céitinn) (died 1644
It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)) = 1644).
Events
January–March
* January 22 – The Royalist Oxford Parliament is first assembled by King Cha ...
), Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
** Emilia Lanier
Emilia Lanier (; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume '' Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum'' (''Hail, God, King of the Jews'', 1611). Attempts have been made to equate her with Shakesp ...
, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (died 1645
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Long Parliament adopts the ''Directory for Public Worship'' in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, replacing the Book of Common Prayer ( 1559). Holy Days (other than Sundays) are not ...
), English
** Thomas Seget (died 1627
Events
January–March
* January 26 – The Dutch ship '' 't Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by François Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rura ...
), Scottish poet writing in Latin
** Zhu Wuxia, flourished
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this year, Chinese woman poetKang-i Sun Chang
Kang-i Sun Chang (born Sun K'ang-i, ; 21 February 1944) is a Taiwanese-American sinologist. She is a scholar of classical Chinese literature. She is the inaugural Malcolm G. Chace Professor, and former chair of the Department of East Asian Langu ...
, Haun Saussy
Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (born February 15, 1960) is an American professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago.
Life
Saussy is the son of Lola Haun Saussy and Tupper Saussy, an American musician and conspiracy theorist. Rais ...
, Charles Yim-tze Kwong
''Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism''
Stanford University Press, 1999, ,
Deaths
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in poetry" article:
* September 5 – Bernardo Tasso (born 1493
Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon. ...
), Italian
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** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
* Between September 8 and October 5 – Mikołaj Rej
Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages in Poland, Middle Ages, as well as a po ...
(born 1505), Polish
* September 11 – Vincenza Armani
Vincenza Armani (c. 1530 in Venice – 11 September 1569), was an Italian actress, singer, poet, musician, lace maker and sculptor. She was one of the most famous Italian actresses of the period and known as the 'Divine Vincenza Armani'. She ...
(born c. 1530
Year 1530 ( MDXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1530th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 530th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 16th century, and the 1st ...
), Italian
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** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
* October 7 – Guillaume Guéroult (born c. 1507), French editor, translator and poet
* November 29 – António Ferreira (born 1528
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Year 1528 ( MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, there is also a Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is ...
), Portuguese
* date not known – Huang O (born 1498), Chinese poet, a woman[Olsen, Kirsten,]
''Chronology of Women's History''
p 63, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, , , retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
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
* 16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
Events
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
Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature is the literature written in the Dutch language between around 1550 and around 1700. This period saw great political and religious changes as the Reformation spread across Northern and Western Europe an ...
* Elizabethan literature
Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with n ...
* French Renaissance literature
* 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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16th-century poetry
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 ...