1516 in poetry

Works published

• Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version (see also 1532), Italy
• Robert Fabyan, Chronicle, London: Richard Pynson, publisher; Great Britain
• Baptista Mantuanus, Italian poet writing in Latin published in France:
  • Agellaria
  • De sacris diebus, 12 books, explaining the various saints' days of the church calendar, published in Lyon
• Garcia de Resende, editor, Cancioneiro Geral ("General Songbook"), anthology, Portugal

Births

• March 26 – Konrad Gesner (died 1565), Swiss, German-language naturalist, bibliographer and poet
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius (died 1571), German poet, historian and archaeologist
• unknown - Ou Daren (died 1596 in poetry), Ming dynasty poet and scholar.

Death

• March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (born 1447), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet
• Ugolino Verino (born 1438), Italian, Latin-language poet

Notes

References

1. Web page titled [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603"], at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. 2009-09-11.
2. Mantuanus, Baptista [https://books.google.com/books?id=iZxfz7v5gN4C&pg=PA52&dq=%22Eclogues+of+Mantuan%22&ei=F9UQSouqO6P2yATG7OyNBg#PPA29,M1 ''The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus''], edited by Wilfred Pirt Mustard, The Johns Hopkins press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books, May 17, 2009
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.