Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
edit- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It is published in France in 1577.[1]
- Tulsidas begins work on his major poem, Ramcharitmanas.
Works published
edit- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Muse chrétienne, a theoretical work that advocates a Christian poetry; published along with several didactic poems, including Judith, Uranie and Le Triomphe de la foi,[2] Bordeaux, France[1]
- The Mirror for Magistrates (anthology)
- Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France[3]
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Œuvres ("Works"), France
Births
edit- July 1 – Joseph Hall (died 1656), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
- Also:
- Gerolamo Aleandro (died 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Richard Barnfield (died 1620), English poet,
- Nicholas Bourbon (died 1644), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
- Nicolas Coeffeteau (died 1623), French theologian, poet and historian
- John Day born about this year (died c. 1640), English poet and playwright
- Feng Menglong (died 1645), Chinese writer and poet
- William Percy (died 1648), English poet
Deaths
edit- June 17 – Louis Des Masures (born c. 1515), French
- December – Selim II (born 1524), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
- Also:
- Rocco Boni, Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo (born 1507), Italian poet who wrote in Latin
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b 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, "Guillaume Du Bartas" p 169
- ^ Web page titled "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603", at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. 2009-09-11.
- ^ Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
- ^ a b Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.