Works published

• Ludovico Ariosto
  Ludovico Ariosto
  Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso . The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions...
  
  , Orlando Furioso
  Orlando Furioso
  Orlando Furioso is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532...
  
  , earliest published version (see also 1532
  1532 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be sometime from 1530 to this year; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval,...
  
  ), Italy
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
  
• Robert Fabyan
  Robert Fabyan
  Robert Fabyan , chronicler, was born in London, of which hebecame an Alderman and Sheriff. He kept a diary of notable events, whichhe expanded into a chronicle, which he entitled, The Concordance of Histories. It covers the period from the arrival of Brutus in England tothe death of King Henry VII...
  
  , Chronicle, London: Richard Pynson, publisher; Great Britain
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• Baptista Mantuanus
  Baptista Mantuanus
  Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.-Biography:Mantuan was born of a Spanish family that had settled in Mantua, the northern Italian city that gave him his most commonly used English name...
  
  , Italian
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
   poet writing in Latin
  Latin poetry
  The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
  
   published in France
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
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  • Agellaria
  • De sacris diebus, 12 books, explaining the various saints' days of the church calendar, published in Lyon
• Garcia de Resende
  Garcia de Resende
  Garcia de Resende was a Portuguese poet and editor. He served John II as a page and private secretary, and later became a knight in the Order of Christ...
  
  , editor, Cancioneiro Geral ("General Songbook"), anthology, Portugal
  Portuguese poetry
  -History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...
  
  

Births

• March 26 – Konrad Gesner (died 1565
  1565 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain...
  
  ), Swiss, German-language naturalist, bibliographer and poet
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius
  Georg Fabricius
  Georg Fabricius , born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.- Life :...
  
   (died 1571
  1571 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Barbour, publication year conjectural, The Bruce, written 1376, posthumously published...
  
  ), German poet, historian and archaeologist

Deaths

• March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus
  Baptista Mantuanus
  Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.-Biography:Mantuan was born of a Spanish family that had settled in Mantua, the northern Italian city that gave him his most commonly used English name...
  
  , also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (born 1447), Italian
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
   Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
  
  -language poet
• Ugolino Verino (born 1438), Italian
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
  
  -language poet

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• 16th century in poetry
  16th century in poetry
  -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
  
  
• 16th century in literature
  16th century in literature
  See also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
  
  
• French Renaissance literature
  French Renaissance literature
  For more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
  
  

• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
  Grands Rhétoriqueurs
  The Grands Rhétoriqueurs or simply the "Rhétoriqueurs" is the name given to a group of poets from 1460 to 1520 working in Northern France, Flanders and the Duchy of Burgundy whose ostentatious poetic production was dominated by an extremely rich rhyme scheme and experimentation with assonance...
  
  
• Renaissance literature
  Renaissance literature
  Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
  
  
• Spanish Renaissance literature
  Spanish Renaissance literature
  Spanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...