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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
- Rémy Belleau:
 - Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works[1]
 
- 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
- ^ a b 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
 - ^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
 - ^ 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
 - ^ 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
 - ^ 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
 - ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
 - ^ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2009-05-14.