• Philippe Desportes' verses first come to public attention when they are sung during a court performance of Jean-Antoine de Baïf's Le Brave (France).^[1]

English edit

• Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, (translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; see also The fyrst fower bookes 1565; many editions into the 17th century)^[2]
• George Turberville:
  • The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, Turned into English Verse, translation and adaptation from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus Adolescentia seu Bucolica)^[2]
  • Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets^[2]
  • The Heroycall Epistles of ... Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe Verse, translation of Ovid's Heroides, many editions^[2]
• Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, publication year conjectural;^[2] earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman

Other edit

• Jean-Antoine de Baif, Le Premier des Météores, a didactic poem on astronomy, France^[3]
• Anna Bijns, Refrains, Netherlands, third edition (first edition 1528, second edition 1548)
• Pey de Garros, Poesias Gasconas, Gascon poetry, France
• Torquato Tasso, Discoursi dell'arte poetica ("Discourses on the Heroic Poem"), published from this year through 1570, Italian criticism^[4]

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

• February 12 – Thomas Campion (died 1620), English composer, poet and physician
• February 27 – William Alabaster (died 1640), English poet
• November – Thomas Nashe (died c. 1601), English, pamphleteer, poet and satirist
• December 15 – Christoph Demantius (died 1643), German composer, music theorist, writer and poet
• Also:
  • Valens Acidalius (died 1595), German critic and poet writing in Latin
  • William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, birth year uncertain (died 1640), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
  • Anthony Copley (died 1609), English Catholic poet and conspirator
  • Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (died 1617), Irish poet
  • John Salusbury (died 1612), Welsh knight, politician and poet

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

• May 2 – Marin Držić, also known as "Marino Darza" and "Marino Darsa" (born 1508), Croatian dramatist, author and poet
• Also:
  • Thomas Beccon (born 1512), English^[5]
  • Nicolaus Mameranus, year of death uncertain (born 1500), Luxembourgish poet and historian

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
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