1582 in poetry

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Works published

Great Britain

• Philip Sidney (attributed), 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 - John Barclay, 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
  • Francesc Vicent Garcia (died 1623), 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 - Nef'i (executed 1635), Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist ^[4]

Deaths

• July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans (born 1517), French humanist poet
• September 28 - George Buchanan (born 1506), Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
• Arnoldus Arlenius (born 1510), Dutch humanist philosopher and poet
• Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ottoman Turkish poet ^[4]
• Natalis Comes (born 1520), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
• Adam Reusner died sometime between 1563 and this year (born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
• 1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
• 1582/1583: Alexander Scott (born 1520), Scottish

See also

• Poetry portal

• 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

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
2. Kennedy, William J., "Petrarchan poetics", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 114, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN   0-521-30008-8, ISBN   978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
3. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN   0-8093-0135-0, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
4. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications