1566 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|England]]

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

Births

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

• October 6 (birth year uncertain) — 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

Deaths

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

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. France, Peter, editor, ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French'', 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN. 0-19-866125-8