1552 in poetry

Works

French

• Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
• Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes^[1]
• Pierre Ronsard, France:
  • Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)^[2]
  • Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets^[1]
  • Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

Other

• Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man^[3]
• Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies^[4]

Births

• February 8 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler

• Also:
  • Jean Bertaut, (died 1611), French
  • Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian^[3]
  • Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources,^[5] or 1562, according to many others^[6] (died 1623), Spanish
  • Sir Walter Ralegh born about this year (died 1618), English
  • Edmund Spenser born about this year (died 1599), English
  • Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire^[7]

Deaths

• Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
• Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet

Events

See also

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

Notes