1582 in poetry

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Events

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Works published

Great Britain

• Astrophil and Stella
• Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis^[1]
• Thomas Watson, Hecatompathia; or, Passionate Centurie of Love^[1]

Other

• Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous^[2]
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France^[3]
• Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain^[4]

Births

• January 28 -
  Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621
  )
• April 8 (bapt.) - Phineas Fletcher (died 1650), English
• November 21 - François Maynard (died 1646), French
• Late - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (died 1622), Spanish
• Also:
  • Richard Corbet (died 1635), English poet and bishop
  • Catalan
    poet
  • Giovanni Valentini (died 1649), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
  • John Vicars (died 1652), English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
• Possible date -
  Turkish poet and satirist^[4]

• July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans (born 1517), French humanist poet
• September 28 -
  Scottish
  historian, scholar, humanist and poet
• Dutch
  humanist philosopher and poet
• Tashcali Yahya Bey,
  Turkish poet^[4]
• Natalis Comes (born 1520), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
• German
• 1582/1585:
  Pashtun
  warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
• 1582/1583:
  Scottish

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature
• University Wits

Notes