1575 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1575.

Events

Venetian poet and courtesan Veronica Franco painted in the style of Tintoretto c.1575

• July – Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella . ^[1]
• September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates.
• unknown date
  • The first primer in the Estonian language is published.
  • First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor appears. It was originally written in 1335.

New books

Prose

• Anonymous – Arbatel de magia veterum ^[2]
• Ulpian Fulwell – The Flower of Fame (appendices in verse)

Drama

• George Gascoigne – The Glass of Government

Poetry

Main article: 1575 in poetry

• Veronica Franco – Terze rime

Births

• April – Jakob Böhme, German theologian (died 1624)
• August 14 – Robert Hayman, Newfoundland poet (died 1624)
• August 15 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist (died 1650)
• Unknown dates
  • David Calderwood, Scottish historian (died 1650)
  • John Cotta, English physician and writer (died 1650)
  • Giovanni Stefano Menochio, Italian Jesuit scholar (died 1655)
  • Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (died 1626)
  • William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (died 1641)

Deaths

• March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian writing in Latin (born 1520)
• June 9 – Paulus Aemilius, Hebrew bibliographer and publisher
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (born c. 1505)
• August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet (born 1503)
• September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian (born 1504) ^[3]
• December 1 – Diogo de Paiva de Andrada, Portuguese theologian (born 1528)
• December 18 – Marcin Bielski, Polish chronicler and poet (born 1495)
• unknown dates
  • Sir William Stevenson, English poet (born 1530)
  • Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (born 1508)

References

1. John Addington Symonds (3 November 2011). Sir Philip Sidney. Cambridge University Press. pp. 34–. ISBN   978-1-108-03445-6.
2. Erin Evans (20 August 2015). The Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia as Handbooks to Eternity: Exploring the Gnostic Mysteries of the Ineffable. BRILL. p. 74. ISBN   978-90-04-30119-1.
3. Jason Van Vliet (2009). Children of God: The Imago Dei in John Calvin and His Context. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 189. ISBN   978-3-525-56918-4.