1576 in poetry explained

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

Events

• Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.^[1]

Works published

France

• Rémy Belleau:
  • Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses,^[2] also known as Pierres précieuses^[3] poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone^[4]
  • Eclogues sacrées^[5]
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works^[1]

Great Britain

• The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
• Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie^[6]
• George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire^[6]
• George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse^[6]

Other

• Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
• Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
• Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

Births

• October 7 (baptism)  - John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
• Also
  • Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
  • Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
  • John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

Deaths

• January 19  - Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
• Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet^[7]
• Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
• Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher 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. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954),, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
2. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
3. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954),, "Rémy Belleau" p 140
4. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990,
5. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954),, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
6. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
7. Web site: Tra Medioevo en rinascimento . Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina . Italian . 2009-05-14 . https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono . 2024-05-24 . dead .