1566 in poetry explained

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

Works published

England

• Peter Beverley, The Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura
• Thomas Churchyard:
  • Churchyard's Round^[1]
  • Churchyardes Farewell^[1]
  • Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp^[1]
• Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)^[1]

Births

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

• October 6 (birth year uncertain^[2]) - Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
• November 26  - Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
• Also:
  • Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
  • Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
  • John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
  • Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England

Deaths

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

• April 25  - Louise Labé (born ca. 1524), French
• September 5, 6 or 7  - Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
• September 7  - Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
• September 27  - Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
• October 31  - Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
• November 17  - Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian

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 and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,