1566 in poetry

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

Works published

England

• Thomas Churchyard:
  • Churchyard's Round^[1]
  • Churchyardes Farewell^[1]
  • Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp^[1]
• Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)^[1]

Births

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

• October 6 (birth year uncertain^[2]) — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
• November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian

• Also:
  • Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
  • Robert Chester (died 1640), English
  • John Hoskins (died 1638), English
  • Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author

Deaths

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

• April 25 – Louise Labé died (born 1526), French
• September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
• September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
• October 31 – Richard Edwards, also spelled "Richard Edwardes" (born 1525), English poet and playwright
• November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian
• Also – Martin Bošňák (birth year not known), Slovak

See also

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

Notes