1556 in poetry
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Works published
France
- Rémy Belleau:
- Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)[2]
Great Britain
- Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works[3]
- Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work[3]
- John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood,[3] verse allegory[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 7 â Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
- April 27 â François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
- August 10 â Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
- November 25 â Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
- date unknown â Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
- date unknown â Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 18 â Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
- October 21 â Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
- November 14 â Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
- Also:
- Fuzûlî (ÙضÙÙÛ) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
- Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
- Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
- Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English[6]
- John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet
