1540 in poetry explained

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Events

• Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope
• Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists.^[1]

Works published

• Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain^[2]
• Girolamo Schola,, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages^[3]

Notes and References

1. Weinberg, 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
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
3. Book: Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar. 1955. 2002. Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. New Delhi. 0-19-560686-8. 362.
4. Book: Preminger, Alex . Brogan, T. V. F. . The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993. New York. MJF Books/Fine Communications. etal.
5. Web page titled "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-22.
   • Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita^[3]

   Births

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

   • January 26  - Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
   • June 11  - Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
   • Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
   • Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican
   • Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet
   • Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese^[4]
   • Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
   • Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer

   Deaths

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

   • October 5  - Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet

   See also

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

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