1576 in poetry
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Events
- Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.[1]
Works published
France
- Rémy Belleau:
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works[1]
Great Britain
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
- Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie[6]
- George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire[6]
- George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse[6]
Other
Births
- October 7 (baptism) â John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
- Also
- Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
- Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
- John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary
Deaths
- January 19 â Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
- Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Mavro VetranoviÄ (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
- Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet
