1570 in literature
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Events
- The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.[1]
- Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
New books
- Roger Ascham - The Scholemaster (posthumously published)
- William Baldwin - Beware the Cat (new edition)
- Thomas North - The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (a translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
- Abraham Ortelius - Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)
New drama
Poetry
- See 1570 in poetry
Births
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
- December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
- Unknown dates
- Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
- Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)
Deaths
- February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
- March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
- July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
- October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)
- November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)
References
- ↑ Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access)