1570 in poetry explained

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

Events

• Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
• Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.

Works published

• Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion^[1]
• Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian: Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata e sposita ("The Poetics of Aristotle in the Vulgar Language"), called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics^[2]
• Thomas Preston, English: A Lamentation from Rome how the Pope doth bewayle the Rebelles in England cannot prevayle. To the tune of "How well, ye mariners", a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith

Births

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

• Sir Robert Aytoun (died 1638), Scottish poet
• Eliáš Láni (died 1618), Slovak
• Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain (died 1630), English writer of madrigals
• Charles Best (died 1627), English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon"
• Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha (died 1652), Irish Gaelic poet and historian
• Francisco de Medrano born (died 1607), Spanish^[2]
• Pedro de Oña (died 1643), first known Chilean poet
• Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain (died c. 1630), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist^[1]
• François du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580 (died 1617), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
• Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575 (died 1625), Dutch
• Yuan Zhongdao (died 1624), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official

Deaths

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

• March 25  - Johann Walter (born 1496), German poet and composer
• November  - Jacques Grévin (born c. 1539), French playwright and poet

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. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications