1570 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.

Events

December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.^[1]
unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.^[2]

Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)^[3]

October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
Unknown dates
- Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
- Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)

February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)^[4]
November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)

Book: John Black. Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings. 1810. John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London. 161–.
Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access)
Book: Mercator, Gerardu . Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura . Robert W. Jr.. Karrow . Library of Congress . 2 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/Mercator_Atlas/MCRATS.PDF . 2016-03-10 .
Book: Charles Ralph Boxer. João de Barros. 1981. Concept Publishing Company. 32.