Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
Works published
Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion
Lodovico Castelvetro, ("The Poetics of Aristotle in the Vulgar Language"), called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics Thomas Preston, , a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Sir Robert Aytoun (died 1638), Scottish poet Eliáš Láni (died 1618), Slovak Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain (died 1630), English writer of madrigals Charles Best (died 1627), English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon" Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha (died 1652), Irish Gaelic poet and historian Francisco de Medrano born (died 1607), Spanish Pedro de Oña (died 1643), first known Chilean poet Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain (died c. 1630), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist François du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580 (died 1617), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575 (died 1625), Dutch Yuan Zhongdao (died 1624), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 25 – Johann Walter (born 1496), German poet and composer November – Jacques Grévin (born c. 1539), French playwright and poet