Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- John Skelton, Colin Clout, publication year uncertain[1]
- First translation into French of Les Triomphes ("Triumphs") of Petrarch[2]
- Marguerite de Navarre, Le Miroir de l'ame Pecheresse, long devotional poem[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Ercole Bottrigari (died 1612), Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- October 11 - Huldrych Zwingli (born 1484), Swiss theologian, priest, poet and writer, killed in Second War of Kappel
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
- ^ Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X