1585 in poetry

Events

• Irish poet Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire composes the poem Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann.
• On the death of Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe Desportes became "recognized indisputably as France's greatest living poet," according to 20th century scholar Bernard Weinberg.

Works published

• Giordano Bruno, Italy:
  • L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes
  • De gli eroici furori ("The Heroic Enthusiasts"), a sonnet sequence and commentaries concerning the philosophy of love and love as a means of mystical ascent; dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney
  • Cabala del Cavallo pegaseo

Births

• January 31 – Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian
• March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero (died 1618), Dutch poet and playwright
• October 11 – Johann Heermann (died 1647), German poet and hymn writer
• November 1 – Jan Brożek (died 1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector
• December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (died 1649), Scottish poet
• Also:
  • Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield (died 1639), English poet, translator and dramatist
  • Ján Filický born about this year (died 1623), Slovak poet
  • Fang Weiyi (died 1668), Chinese woman poet

Deaths

• Paolo Giovio, birth year not known, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Ambrosius Lobwasser died (born 1515), German
• December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard (born 1524), French

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. 0-8047-3231-0, {{ISBN. 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
3. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice_autori_crono.jsp "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-11-24 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.)