1574 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1574.

Events

Creation of the original Exercicio quotidiano (religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language).
Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov prints the second edition of his Apostolos and the first Azbuka (alphabet book) in Cyrillic script.

September – Thomas Gataker, English theologian (died 1654)
September 18 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet (died 1640)
November 4 – Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist (died 1646)
Unknown dates
- Richard Barnfield, English poet (died 1627)
- Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian (died 1623)
- John Day, English dramatist (died c. 1640)
- Feng Menglong, Chinese vernacular poet (died 1645)
- Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist (died 1635)

January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher (born 1502)
April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born 1500)
June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists (born 1511)
November 7 – Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author (born 1510)
November 28 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (born 1502)
December 10 – Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo (born 1525)
Unknown dates
- Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer (born 1512)
- Antonio Minturno, Italian poet and critic (born 1500)
- Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer (born 1511)
- Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian (born 1542)