This article covers 1520 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Contents

• Works published
• Great Britain
• Other
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• Notes

Works published

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Hernando de Acuña born about this year (died 1580), Spanish
• Giovanni Bona de Boliris (died 1572), Humanist, poet and writer, who wrote in Latin and Italian
• Thomas Churchyard, birth year uncertain (died 1604), English author and poet
• Natalis Comes (died 1582), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
• Pernette Du Guillet (died 1545), French
• William Lauder, year uncertain (died 1573), Scottish cleric, playwright, and poet
• Madeleine Des Roches born about this year (died 1587), French author and poet who published works jointly with her daughter, Catherine Des Roches; the two also hosted a literary salon which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
• Alexander Scott (died 1582/1583), Scottish
• Georg Thym born about this year (died 1560), German teacher, poet and writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• William Dunbar, death year uncertain (born c. 1460), Scottish
• William Hendred (born 1470), English ^[2]

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes