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- George GascoigneGeorge GascoigneGeorge Gascoigne was an English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to the emergence of Philip Sidney...
- A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (the first collected edition of Gascoigne's verse and drama)
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- Anonymous - New Custom (published)
- George GascoigneGeorge GascoigneGeorge Gascoigne was an English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to the emergence of Philip Sidney...
- Jocasta
- Supposes
- The Montague Masque (all three published in Hundred Sundry Flowers)
- Torquato TassoTorquato TassoTorquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem...
- AmintaAmintaAminta is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble persons living at the Court, who could understand subtle allusions the poet made to that style of life, in contrast with the life of shepherds,...
Births
- November 30 - Aubert MiraeusAubert MiraeusAubert Miraeus , also called Aubert le Mire, was an ecclesiastical historian.-Life:He was born in Brussels. After studying at Douai and Leuven he was made canon of Antwerp cathedral in 1608 and secretary to his uncle, Joannes Miraeus, who was then Bishop of Antwerp...
, Belgian ecclesiastical historian (d. 1640) - December 21 - Mathurin RégnierMathurin RégnierMathurin Régnier was a French satirist.-Life:Régnier was born in Chartres, current region of Centre....
, French satirist (d. 1613) - date unknown
- Severin BiniusSeverin BiniusSeverin Binius was a German Roman Catholic priest, historian and critic.-Life:He studied at the gymnasium of St. Lawrence, in Cologne, and later taught in the same school for several years...
, German historian (d. 1641) - Daniel NaborowskiDaniel NaborowskiDaniel Naborowski was a Polish Baroque poet.Daniel Naborowski was born in Cracow. His education took place not only in Cracow, but also at Wittenberg and Basle . In Basle he studied medicine, in Orléans he studied law, and from Galileo in Padua he learned military engineering...
, Polish poet (d. 1640)
- Severin Binius
Deaths
- January 1 - Johann PfeffingerJohann PfeffingerJohann Pfeffinger was a significant theologian and Protestant Reformer.-His life and work:...
, German Protestant theologian (b. 1493) - February - William LauderWilliam Lauder (poet)-Early life:William Lauder was a native of the Lothians. The precise date and place of his birth, or anything regarding his family connections, have not yet been ascertained, although he is almost certainly a member of one of the great Lauder families of that time - Lauder of The Bass, or Lauder of...
, Scottish poet (b. c. 1520) - July - Étienne JodelleÉtienne JodelleÉtienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin , French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris of a noble family.He attached himself to the poetic circle of the Pléiade and proceeded to apply the principles of the reformers to dramatic composition...
, French dramatist and poet (b. 1532) - December 30 - Giovanni Battista GiraldiGiovanni Battista GiraldiGiovanni Battista Giraldi was an Italian novelist and poet. He appended the nickname Cinthio to his name and is commonly referred to by that name .Born at Ferrara, he was educated at the university there, and in 1525 became its professor of natural philosophy...
, Italian novelist and poet (b. 1504) - date unknown
- Donato GiannottiDonato GiannottiDonato Giannotti was an Italian political writer and playwright.He was one of the leaders of the short-lived Florentine Republic of 1527. He subsequently wrote theoretical works on republicanism. After the return of the Medicis, he lived in exile, dying in Rome...
, Italian political writer and poet (b. 1492) - Juan Ginés de SepúlvedaJuan Ginés de SepúlvedaJuan Ginés de Sepúlveda was a Spanish humanist, philosopher and theologian. In 1533 and 1534 he wrote to Desiderius Erasmus from Rome concerning differences between Erasmus's Greek New Testament , and the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209...
, Spanish philosopher and theologian (b. 1494) - Paul Skalić, Croatian encyclopaedist (b. 1534)
- Donato Giannotti