1572 in literature
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[edit] Events
- English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".
[edit] New books
- Friedrich Risner - Opticae thesaurus
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- See 1572 in poetry
[edit] Births
- ?June 11 - Ben Jonson, poet and dramatist (d. 1637)
- December 27 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech poet and dramatist (d. 1622)
- date unknown
- John Donne, English poet (d. 1631)
- James Mabbe, English poet (d. 1642)
- İbrahim Peçevi, historian of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1650)
- John Pory, one of the earliest English journalists (d. 1636)
[edit] Deaths
- March 13 - Petar Hektorović, Croatian poet (b. 1487)
- March 27 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and philologist (b. c. 1523)
- August 26 - Petrus Ramus, French humanist writer (b. 1515) (killed in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre)
- October 25 - Cosimo Bartoli, Italian philologist (b. 1503)
- date unknown
- Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch linguist (b. 1519)
- Séon Carsuel, Gaelic writer (b. c. 1522)
- Gutierre de Cetina, Spanish poet (b. 1518)
- Richard Grafton, English printer and publisher
- Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese romance writer (b. c. 1500)