1580 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1580.
Events
- March â Thomas Legge's Latin play about Richard III of England, Richardus Tertius, the first known history play performed in England, is acted by students at St John's College, Cambridge.
- July 12 â The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible translation into a Slavic language (Old Church Slavonic), is first printed at Ostroh in the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Ukraine) by Ivan Fyodorov.[1]
New books
- Book of Concord
- Jean Bodin â De la demonomanie des sorciers
- Veronica Franco â Lettere familiari a diversi[2]
- Robert Greene â Mamillia
- John Lyly â Euphues and his England
- Michel de Montaigne â Essais[3]
- Anthony Munday â Zelauto
New drama
- Robert Garnier â Antigone
- Thomas Legge â Richardus Tertius
Poetry
- LuÃs Vaz de Camões â LuÃs Vaz de Camões
- Jan Kochanowski â Laments (Treny)
Births
- March 5 â Christophe Justel, French scholar (died 1649)
- April 18 (date of baptism) â Thomas Middleton, English poet and dramatist (died 1627)
- June 9 â Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655)[4]
- September 17 â Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645)[5]
- October 12 â Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish poet (died 1633)[6]
- unknown dates
- Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, French theologian (died 1646)
- Manuel de Almeida, Spanish historian (died 1646)
- Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (died 1664)
- Philipp Clüver, German historian (died 1623)
- Ling Mengchu (åæ¿å), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1644)
- Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet (died 1621)
- Francisco de Lugo, Spanish theologian (died 1652)[7]
Deaths
- May 3 â Thomas Tusser, English poet (born 1524)
- June 10 â LuÃs de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c.1524)[8]
- June 22 â Hernando de Acuña, Spanish translator (born c.1520)
- August 20 â Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born 1506)
- October 8 â Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (born 1516)
- November 3 â Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512)
- unknown dates
- Sebastián de Horozco, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1510)
- Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c.1532)[9]
- probable â Raphael Holinshed, chronicler[10]