1525 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Works published

  • Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century
  • Pietro Bembo
    Pietro Bembo
    Pietro Bembo was an Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch...

    , Prose della volgar lingua, criticism, Italy
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

  • William Walter
    William Walter
    William Walter may refer to:* William Walter , American rock musician* William Walter & Co., American rock band* William Walter William Walter may refer to:* William Walter (musician), American rock musician* William Walter & Co., American rock band* William Walter (boxer) William Walter may refer...

    , Titus and Gesippus, publication year uncertain, translated from a Latin
    Latin poetry
    The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...

     vrsion of Boccaccio's Decameron, Day 10, Tale 8
  • John Walton
    John Walton
    John Walton is the name of:* John Walton , Georgia Continental Congressman, signer of the Articles of Confederation* Sir John Lawson Walton , British MP and Attorney General of England and Wales...

    , The Consolation of Philosophy, translated from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy (see also Geoffrey Chaucer
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...

    's translation of the same work, 1478 edition)
  • Petrarch
    Petrarch
    Francesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...

    , edited by Allesandro Vellutello, Il Petrarco; the editor reordered the sequence of the "scattered" poems to reflect a narrative of Petrarch's life; the text would be reprinted 29 times in the 16th century; posthumous

Births

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  • Pey de Garros
    Pey de Garros
    Pey de Garros , or Pèir de Garròs in modern Gascon, was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language....

     born about this year (died c. 1583
    1583 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Sir Philip Sidney is knighted*William Shakespeare's first daughter Susanna is born-France:...

    ), French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof
    Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof
    Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof was a German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator. He left a rich and versatile collection of works. The Ausläufer collections contain sixteen works...

     (died 1602
    1602 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Basse, Three Pastoral Elegies...

    ), German Landsknecht
    Landsknecht
    Landsknechte were European, predominantly German mercenary pikemen and supporting foot soldiers from the late 15th to the late 16th century, and achieved the reputation for being the universal mercenary of Early modern Europe.-Etymology:The term is from German, Land "land, country" + Knecht...

    , baroque poet and translator
  • Louise Labé
    Louise Labé
    Louise Labé, , also identified as La Belle Cordière, , was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet...

     born about this year (died 1566
    1566 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...

    ), French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Pir Roshan
    Pir Roshan
    Bayazid Khan known as Pir Roshan or Pir Rokhan ‎ was a Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual of the Barak/Urmar tribe who wrote in Pashto, Persian and Arabic. His mother tongue was Ormuri and he also spoke Pashto...

     (died 1582/1585
    1582 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Philip Sidney , Astrophil and Stella* Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis...

    ), Pashtun
    Pashtun people
    Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

     warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
  • Jan van Casembroot
    Jan van Casembroot
    Jan van Casembroot was a South-Holland noble and poet. He was lord of Bekkerzeel, Zellik, Kobbegem, Berchem and Fenain.-Life:...

     (died 1568
    1568 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Simwnt Fychan appointed "pencerdd", or senior bard, by Elizabeth I of England...

    ), South Holland
    South Holland
    South Holland is a province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam.South Holland is one of the most densely populated and industrialised areas in the world...

     noble and poet

Deaths

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  • Thomas Müntzer (born c. 1489), German
  • Jean Lemaire de Belges
    Jean Lemaire de Belges
    Jean Lemaire de Belges was a Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France.He was born in Hainaut , the godson and possibly a nephew of Jean Molinet, and spent some time with him at Valenciennes, where the elder writer held a kind of academy of poetry. Lemaire in his first poems calls...

     died about this year (born c. 1473), Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France
  • Cornelio Vitelli (born 1450), Italian
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

    , Latin
    Latin poetry
    The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...

    -language poet

See also

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

  • 16th century in poetry
    16th century in poetry
    -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...

  • 16th century in literature
    16th century in literature
    See also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...

  • French Renaissance literature
    French Renaissance literature
    For more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....

  • Renaissance literature
    Renaissance literature
    Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...

  • Spanish Renaissance literature
    Spanish Renaissance literature
    Spanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...

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