1572 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.

Events

• January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants". ^[1]
• unknown dates
  • Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage. ^[2]
  • George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.

New books

• Remy Belleau – La Bergerie (2nd edition)
• Rafael Bombelli – L'Algebra ^[3]
• John Field – A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
• Libro d'Oro of Corfu
• Bishops' Bible (revised version)

New drama

• Jean de la Taille – Saül le furieux ^[4]

Poetry

• Luís de Camões – Os Lusiadas ^[5]
• Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan ^[6]
• Thomas Palfreyman – Divine Meditations

Births

• January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
• January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631) ^[7]
• June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637) ^[8]
• July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)

Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)

Deaths

• March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
• April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
• June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
• September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
• September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)

References

1. Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 87–8. (Spellings modernized.)
2. Anthony Fletcher; Peter Roberts (2 November 2006). Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN   978-0-521-02804-2.
3. Hans Niels Jahnke. A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Soc. p. 213. ISBN   978-0-8218-9050-9.
4. Noirot-Maguire, Corinne (February 2010), Persels, J.; Ganim, R. (eds.), "Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste", EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, pp. 121–43
5. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
6. Kaplan, Gregory B., ed. (2005). "Fernando de Herrera". Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Vol. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. University of Tennessee; Gale. pp. 113–119.
7. David Colclough (2003). John Donne's Professional Lives. DS Brewer. p. 40. ISBN   978-0-85991-775-9.
8. Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN   978-0-19-283944-2.