1585 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
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Events

February 2 - Hamnet and Judith, twin children of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne, are baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon.^[1]^[2]
March 3 - The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened (with a production of Sophocles' Oedipus the King), with trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective.

January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian (died 1650)
January 31 – Daniel Schwenter, German poet and librarian (died 1636)
June 24 – Johannes Lippius, German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and theorist of music (died 1612)
October 11 – Johann Heermann, German poet (died 1647)
Unknown date – Diego Jiménez de Enciso, Spanish dramatist (died 1634)

February 6 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and theorist (born 1518)
February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit Biblical commentator (born 1515)
March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (born 1517)
June 4 – Muretus, French humanist poet and writer in Latin (born 1526)
June 20 – Christian Kruik van Adrichem, Catholic theologian (born 1533)
July 30 – Christian Schesaus, German humanist poet (born 1535)
September 1 – Alexander Arbuthnot, printer (date of birth unknown)
December – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)
December 8 – Piero Vettori, Italian humanist philologist and writer (born 1499)
Unknown dates
- Anthony Gilby, English Puritan and Bible translator (born c. 1510)
- Molanus, theologian of the Counter Reformation (born 1533)

↑ Schoenbaum, Samuel (1991). Shakespeare's Lives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-818618-5.
↑ Schoenbaum, Samuel (1987). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Revised ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505161-0.