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

Contents

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

Events

• Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is first published complete, a pirated edition printed in Parma being followed by an authorized edition from Ferrara, where the poet is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna. ^[1] Also this year, Aldus Manutius the Younger prints a selection of Tasso's lyrics and prose in Venice.

Works published

Births

• March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (died 1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
• Also:
  • Henry Adamson (died 1637), Scottish poet and historian
  • Hieronim Morsztyn (died 1623), Polish poet
  • Sir Thomas Overbury (murdered 1613), English poet and essayist
  • Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (died 1627), English countess, minor poet and major patron of poets

Deaths

• Hywel ap Syr Mathew (born unknown), Welsh poet, genealogist and soldier
• Paul Speratus died (born 1484), German
• Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski died (born c. 1550), Polish
• Surdas, died sometime from this year to 1584 (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect

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
• University Wits

Notes