1566 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1566 in poetry

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Events

Peter Beverley, The Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura
Thomas Churchyard:
- Churchyard's Round^[1]
- Churchyardes Farewell^[1]
- Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp^[1]
Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

October 6 (birth year uncertain^[2]) — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
Also:
- Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
- Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
- John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
- Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 25 – Louise Labé (born ca. 1524), French
September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
September 7 – Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
October 31 – Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8

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