• Robert Copland, Epilogue to the Syege of Rodes self-published in London; Great Britain^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 28 – Selim II (died 1574), Ottoman Turkish sultan and poet
• September 11 – Pierre de Ronsard (died 1585), French prince des poètes
• Date unknown – Thomas Tusser (died 1580), English chorister, agriculturalist and poet
• Approximate year
  • Luís de Camões, also known as "Luiz Camoes"^[2] (died 1580), Portuguese national poet
  • Louise Labé (died 1566), French poet
  • Girolamo Parabosco (died 1577), Italian poet and musician

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 5 – Marko Marulić (born 1450), Croatian poet and Christian humanist, known as "the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age" and the "father of the Croatian Renaissance"; He signed his works as "Marko Marulić Splićanin" ("Marko Marulić of Split"), "Marko Pečenić", "Marcus Marulus Spalatensis", or "Dalmata"
• January 7 – Tang Yin died this year, according to some sources,^[3] or 1523 according to others^[4] (born 1470), Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher^[4]
• Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (born 1456), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Francesco Negri (humanist) died this year or sometime later (born 1452), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]

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• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature