1579 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1579.
Events
- January 28 - Burmese language poet Hsinbyushin Medaw becomes queen consort of Lanna.
- Miguel de Cervantes is jailed in Seville for discrepancies in his accounts as a tax collector.
- Torquato Tasso is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna in Ferrara as insane; he remains here until 1586.
- Bible of Kralice is published - the first translation of the Bible into the Czech language.
New books
- John Frampton
- A discourse of the Navigation which the Portugales doe Make to the Realmes and Provinces of the East Partes of the Worlde, and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the Dominion of China, first English work (translated from Bernardino de Escalante) devoted to China
- The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, first English translation of The Travels of Marco Polo
- Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse, containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters and such like Caterpillars of the Commonwealth
- Martin de Hoyarçabal - Les voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburu
- Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses
- Thomas North - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes (Plutarch's Parallel Lives translated from Amyot's French version)
- Piotr Skarga - Żywoty świętych ("Lives of the Saints")
New drama
Poetry
- Edmund Spenser - The Shepherd's Calendar
Births
- February 9 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (died 1639)
- August 1 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (died 1644)
- August 23 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (died 1625)
- September 16 – Samuel Coster, Dutch dramatist (died 1665)
- October 4 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (died 1644)
- December – John Fletcher, dramatist (died 1625)
- Unknown dates
- Chimalpahin, Aztec historian (died 1660)
- Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet (died 1641)
- Johannes Messenius, Swedish historian and dramatist (died 1636)
- Rhys Prichard, Welsh-language poet (died 1644)
- Francis Rous, English religious writer (died 1659)
- Walter Yonge of Colyton, English diarist (died 1649)
Deaths
- March 12 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian philosopher (born 1508)
- November 21 – Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italian poet and author (born 1524)
- Unknown dates
- Giovanni Battista Adriani, Italian historian
- Alonso de Molina, Spanish grammarian and lexicographer (born c. 1513)
- William Seres, English printer
- William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and translator (born 1524)