1556 in poetry explained

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

Works published

• Rémy Belleau:
  • Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French^[1]
  • Petites Inventions
• Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)^[2]

• Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works^[3]
• Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work
• John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood, verse allegory^[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.^[5]

Births

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

• March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
• April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
• August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
• November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
• date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
• date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court

Deaths

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

• April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
• October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
• November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
• Also:
  • Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
  • Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
  • Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
  • Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English^[6]
  • John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry

Notes and References

1. Book: France. Peter. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. registration. 1995. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-866125-2.
2. Book: Appelbaum, Stanley. Introduction to French Poetry. 1991. Courier Corporation. 978-0-486-26711-1.
3. Book: Cox. Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. registration. 2004. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-860634-5.
4. Book: Kurian, George Thomas. Timetables of World Literature. 2003. Facts on File. 978-0-8160-4197-8.
5. Book: Rollins. Hyder E.. Baker. Herschel. The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century. 1954. 77. 1037540836.
6. Web site: Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500–1603. https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071217/http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html . Stanford University library . 2011-06-08 . dead.