1572 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.

Events

• January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".^[1]
• unknown dates
  • Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.^[2]
  • George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.

New books

• Remy Belleau – La Bergerie (2nd edition)
• Rafael Bombelli – L'Algebra^[3]
• John Field – A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
• Libro d'Oro of Corfu
• Bishops' Bible (revised version)

New drama

• Jean de la Taille – Saül le furieux

Poetry

• Luís de Camões – Os Lusiadas^[4]
• Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan^[5]
• Thomas Palfreyman – Divine Meditations

Births

• January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
• January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)^[6]
• June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)^[7]
• July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)

Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)

Deaths

• March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
• April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
• June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
• September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
• September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)

Notes and References

1. Book: Chambers, E. K.. E. K. Chambers

   . E. K. Chambers. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1923. 2. 87-8. (Spellings modernized.)

2. Book: Anthony Fletcher. Peter Roberts. Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson. 2 November 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-02804-2. 29.
3. Book: Hans Niels Jahnke. A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Soc.. 978-0-8218-9050-9. 213.
4. Book: Preminger, Alex . Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan . The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993. New York. MJF Books/Fine Communications. etal.
5. Encyclopedia: Fernando de Herrera. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Kaplan, Gregory B.. University of Tennessee; Gale. 2005. 113–119.
6. Book: David Colclough. John Donne's Professional Lives. 2003. DS Brewer. 978-0-85991-775-9. 40.
7. Book: Ben Jonson. Five Plays. 1999. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-283944-2. 15.