1576 in poetry

Events

• Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.

Works published

[[French poetry|France]]

• Rémy Belleau:
  • Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses, also known as Pierres précieuses poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone
  • Eclogues sacrées
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
• Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie
• George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire
• George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse

Other

• Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
• Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
• Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

Births

• October 7 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
• Also
  • Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
  • Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
  • John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

Deaths

• January 19 – Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
• Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
• Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and 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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
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
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, "Rémy Belleau" p 140
4. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, [[Edinburgh]], fifth edition, 1990, {{ISBN. 0-550-16040-X
5. 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, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
6. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
7. "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina.