1553 in poetry

Events

• Joachim du Bellay accompanies (and is secretary to) his cousin, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, on a visit to Rome which lasts until August 1557. In Rome, the poet continues to write works which will be published in 1558.

Works published

[[French poetry|France]]

• Olivier de Magny:
  • Les Amours 102 sonnets addressed to "Castianire", often identified as Louise Labe, preceded by a sonnet often attributed to her; Paris: Estienne Groulleau, France
  • Hymne sur la naissance de Madame, fille du roi très chrestien Henry, Arnoul L'Angelier, Paris; France
• Pierre de Ronsard, Livret de Folâtries

Other

• Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib. Quatuor, also known as Carmina, edited by Giovanni Battista Pigna
• Jami, Rose Garden of the Pious (illustrated version in the Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.)
• Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, Great Britain
• Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet (who wrote in Middle Scots):
  • Eneados ("Aeneid"), translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid 1512–1513; with Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio; the first complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into an Anglic language; the first printed edition, published in London by the press of William Copland; the edition displays an anti–Roman Catholic bias, in that references (in the prologues) to the Virgin Mary, Purgatory, and Catholic ceremonies are altered or omitted; 66 lines of the translation, describing the amour of Dido and Aeneas, are omitted as indelicate.
  • The Palis of Honoure, publication year uncertain; second edition, substantially changed

Births

• March 29 – Vitsentzos Kornaros (died 1613 or 1614), Cretan poet of the Greek Renaissance, writer of the romantic epic poem Erotokritos
• John Lyly born this year or 1554 (died 1606), English writer, dramatist and poet

Deaths

• March 17 – Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius" (born 1478), Italian (Venetian), physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), atomist and Latin-language poet
• Also:
  • Erasmus Alberus (born c. 1500), German
  • Hanibal Lucić died about this year (born 1485), Croatian poet and playwright
  • Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (born 1465), Japanese renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

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, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43
2. [http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/biolab.html "La vie de Louise Labé"] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-02-04 , a chronology, also [http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/magny.html "Olivier de Magny (1529? -1561?)"] {{Webarchive). link. (2009-04-24 , both in French, retrieved May 17, 2009.)
3. 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
4. 1-57958-390-3, retrieved August 7, 2010
5. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6