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1540 in poetry

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This article covers 1540 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

  • Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope
  • Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists.

Works published

  • Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain
  • Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages
  • Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita

Births

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

  • January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
  • June 11 – Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
  • Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
  • Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican
  • Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet
  • Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese
  • Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
  • Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer

Deaths

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

  • October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet

Notes

References

  1. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., ''French Poetry of the Renaissance'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), {{ISBN. 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
  2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
  3. Web page titled [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110701/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm Archived] {{webarchive. link. (2007-09-09 2009-07-22.)
  4. Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. (2002). "A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar". Indian Branch, Oxford University Press.
  5. (1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics". MJF Books/Fine Communications.
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