1576 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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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 poet, playwright 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

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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
2. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "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, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
6. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
7. "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.