Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.

Works published

England Robert Copland, , publication year uncertainCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), (see also Metamorphosis [Books 1–15]) Barnabe Googe, translation (from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life (see also editions of 1560, 1561)

France Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril; revised and expanded 1572; FranceMagnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, Pierre de Ronsard: Abrégé de l'art poétique français, a handbook intended for beginners in poetry; French criticismPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Élegies, Mascarades, et BergerieWeinberg, 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), , "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70

Other Jan Kochanowski, Chess ("Szachy"), published either this year or in 1564; Polish

Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni (died 1635), Italian Also: Cheng Jiasui (died 1643), Chinese landscape painter and poet John Davies of Hereford, birth year uncertain (died 1618), English Francis Meres (died 1647), English churchman, author, critic and poet Konoe Nobutada (died 1614), Japanese courtier and man of letters known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist Andrzej Zbylitowski (died 1608), Polish poet

Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: October 14 - Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (born 1521), English December 13 - Konrad Gesner (born 1516), German Benedetto Varchi, (born 1502 or 1503),Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. 2009-05-27. Italian, Latin-language poet Approximate date - Hwang Jini (born 1522), Korean kisaeng

See also

Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes