1570 in poetry
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Events
- Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
- Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
Works published
- Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion[1]
- Lodovico Castelvetro, Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata e sposita ("The Poetics of Aristotle in the Vulgar Language"), called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics[2]
- Thomas Preston, A Lamentation from Rome how the Pope doth bewayle the Rebelles in England cannot prevayle. To the tune of "How well, ye mariners", a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Sir Robert Aytoun (died 1638), Scottish poet
- Eliáš Láni (died 1618), Slovak
- Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain (died 1630), English writer of madrigals
- Charles Best (died 1627), English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon"
- Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha (died 1652), Irish Gaelic poet and historian
- Francisco de Medrano born (died 1607), Spanish[2]
- Pedro de Oña (died 1643), first known Chilean poet
- Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain (died c. 1630), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist[1]
- François du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580 (died 1617), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
- Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575 (died 1625), Dutch
- Yuan Zhongdao (died 1624), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 – Johann Walter (born 1496), German poet and composer
- November – Jacques Grévin (born c. 1539), French playwright and poet
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
