1574 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1574.
Events
- unknown dates
- Exercicio quotidiano, a religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language, is created.[1]
- The Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov prints the second edition of his Apostolos and the first Azbuka (alphabet book) in Cyrillic script.
Prose
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf â Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures
- Matthias Flacius et al. â Magdeburg Centuries
- Nicolás Monardes â Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
- Elizabeth Tyrwhitt â Morning and Evening Prayers[2]
Poetry
- See 1574 in poetry
Births
- September â Thomas Gataker, English theologian (died 1654)
- September 18 â Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet (died 1640)
- November 4 â Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist (died 1646)
- Unknown dates
- Richard Barnfield, English poet (died 1627)
- Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian (died 1623)
- John Day, English dramatist (died c. 1640)
- Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist (died 1635)
- Feng Menglong (馮夢é¾), Chinese vernacular poet (died 1645)
- William Percy, English poet and playwright (died 1648)
Deaths
- January 30 â Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher (born 1502)
- April 17 â Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born 1500)
- June 27 â Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists (born 1511)
- November 7 â Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author (born 1510)
- November 28 â Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (born 1502)
- December 10 â Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo (born 1525)
- Unknown dates
- Gáspár Heltai (Kaspar Helth), Transylvanian writer in German (born c. 1490)
- Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer (born 1512)
- Antonio Minturno, Italian poet and critic (born 1500)
- Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer (born 1511)
- Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian (born 1542)