1540 in poetry

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Events

• Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope
• Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists. ^[1]

Works published

• Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain ^[2]
• Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages ^[3]
• Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita ^[4]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
• June 11 – Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
• Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
• Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican
• Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet
• Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese ^[5]
• Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
• Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. 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, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
3. Web page titled "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110701/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm Archived Archived 2007-09-09 at the Wayback Machine 2009-07-22.
4. Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (2002) [1955]. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar. New Delhi: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN   0-19-560686-8.
5. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.