1552 in poetry
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This article covers 1552 in poetry.
Works
French
- Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline[1]
- Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard[2]
- Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes[3]
- Pierre de Ronsard, France:
Other
- Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man[5]
- Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies[6]
Births
- January 22 â Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources (executed 1618), English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
- February 8 â Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
- Also:
- Jean Bertaut (died 1611), French
- Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian[5]
- Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources,[7] or 1562, according to many others[8] (died 1623), Spanish
- Edmund Spenser, born about this year (died 1599), English
- Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire[9]
- Cvijeta ZuzoriÄ (died 1648), Ragusan
Deaths
- Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
- Satomura Shokyu éææä¼ (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
- Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
- Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet
