1572 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1572.
Events
- January 3 - James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".[1]
- Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.
- George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.
New books
- Remy Belleau - La bergerie (2nd edition)
- Rafael Bombelli - L'Algebra
- John Field - A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
- Libro d'Oro of Corfu
- Bishops' Bible (revised version)
New drama
- Jean de la Taille - Saül le furieux[2]
Poetry
- Luís de Camões - Os Lusiadas[3]
- Fernando de Herrera - Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan[4]
- Thomas Palfreyman - Divine Meditations
Births
- Between January and June - John Donne, English poet (died 1631)
- January 7 - Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
- June 11 - Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)
- July 25 - Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)
Deaths
- March 27 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymatch (born c.1523)
- April 12 - Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c.1520)
- June 28 - Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
- September - Denis Lambin, French classical scholar (born 1520)
- September 23 - Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
In literature
- Alexandre Dumas' novel La Reine Margot (1844–45) presents a fictionalised account of events this August in Paris.
References
- ↑ Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 87–8. (Spellings modernized.)
- ↑ Noirot-Maguire, Corinne (February 2010), "Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste", in Persels, J.; Ganim, R. (ed.), EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France: 121–43
- ↑ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
- ↑ Kaplan, Gregory B., ed. (2005). "Fernando de Herrera". Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. University of Tennessee; Gale. pp. 113–119.
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