Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
- Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England
Works published
- Joachim du Bellay, France:
- Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549)
- Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
- Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
- Also:
- Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet
- Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
- Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet
- Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
- Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet
- William Warner (died 1609), English poet
- Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
- Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese[3]
- Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet
