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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1568.

Events

October – The Bishops' Bible (inscribed The Holie Bible) is published as a translation into English made under the authority of the Church of England.^[1]

New books

Prose

Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki – De optimo senatore ^[2]
Petar Hektorović – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Discourse on Fishing and Fishermen)^[3]
Hans Sachs and Jost Amman (illustrations) – Das Ständebuch (Book of Trades)
William Turner
- Of Sage
- A New Boke on the Natures and Properties of all Wines
Giorgio Vasari – Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ( Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects ; revised edition)
Christopher Watson (translator) – The hystories of the most famous and worthy chronographer Polybius ^[4]

Children

Niels Bredal – The Child's Mirror (in Danish)

Drama

Ulpian Fulwell – Like Will to Like
William Wager – The Longer Thou Livest, The More Foole Thou Art

Poetry

François d'Amboise – Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency
See also 1568 in poetry

Births

January 20 – Daniel Cramer, German Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist (died 1625)
March 30 – Henry Wotton, English diplomat and author (died 1639)^[5]
July 7 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theater owner (died 1619)
September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet (died 1639)
Unknown date – Richard Baker, English chronicler (died 1645)

Deaths

April 7 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian (born 1529)
September 14 – Jan van Casembroot, Flemish humanist poet (executed, born c. 1525)
December 23 – Roger Ascham, English didact (born c. 1515)
Unknown dates
- Antoine Héroet, French poet
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician, naturalist, and medical writer (born 1501/2)
- Dirk Philips, Frisian Anabaptist theologian (born 1504)

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References

↑ Short account. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
↑ Dirk Sacré; Jan Papy; Monique Mund-Dopchie (December 2009). Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies. Leuven University Press. p. 489. ISBN 978-90-5867-766-2.
↑ Zara Martirosova Torlone; Dana LaCourse Munteanu; Dorota Dutsch (17 April 2017). A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe. John Wiley & Sons. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-118-83271-4.
↑ Polybius (1979). Walbank, Frank W.; Scott-Kilvert, Ian (eds.). The Rise Of The Roman Empire. Penguin Classics. p. 36. ISBN 0-14-044362-2.
↑ Eglise wallonne (Norwich, England); William John Charles Moens (1887). The Walloons and Their Church at Norwich: Their History and Registers. 1565-1832 ... Huguenot Society of London. p. 230.

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[1] Short account. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[2] Dirk Sacré; Jan Papy; Monique Mund-Dopchie (December 2009). Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies. Leuven University Press. p. 489. ISBN 978-90-5867-766-2.

[3] Zara Martirosova Torlone; Dana LaCourse Munteanu; Dorota Dutsch (17 April 2017). A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe. John Wiley & Sons. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-118-83271-4.

[4] Polybius (1979). Walbank, Frank W.; Scott-Kilvert, Ian (eds.). The Rise Of The Roman Empire. Penguin Classics. p. 36. ISBN 0-14-044362-2.

[5] Eglise wallonne (Norwich, England); William John Charles Moens (1887). The Walloons and Their Church at Norwich: Their History and Registers. 1565-1832 ... Huguenot Society of London. p. 230.

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