Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England

Works published

• Joachim du Bellay, France:
  • Des Antiquités de Rome ("Antiquities of Rome")^[1]
  • Les Regrets, melancholy satire,^[2] a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"^[3]
  • Divers Jeux Rustiques
  • Poésies latines
• Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549)
• Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
  • Lyric Poems^[4]
  • Galateo^[4]
• Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian^[2]

Births

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

• October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
• Also:
  • Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet
  • Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
  • Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet
  • Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
  • Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet
  • William Warner (died 1609), English poet
  • Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator

Deaths

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

• Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
• Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese^[3]
• Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet