Original Content
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation’s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French).
Events
Works Published
John Skelton, Colin Clout, publication year uncertain.
First translation into French of Les Triomphes (“Triumphs”) of Petrarch.
Marguerite de Navarre, Le Miroir de l’ame Pecheresse, a lengthy devotional poem.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding “[year] in poetry” article:
- Ercole Bottrigari (died 1612), Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding “[year] in poetry” article:
- October 11 – Huldrych Zwingli (born 1484), Swiss theologian, priest, poet, and writer, killed in the Second War of Kappel.
See Also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature