This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.
Events December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este. unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access)
New books
Prose Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous) William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition) Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni) Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)
Poetry See 1570 in poetry
Births October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637) December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648) Unknown dates Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638) Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643) Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)
Deaths February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499) March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496) July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500) October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496) November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)
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