Pernette du Guillet, Rymes de Gentille et Vertueuse Dame, published posthumously after her death this year[1]
Antoine Héroët, Le mespris de la court, including "L'androgyne de Platon", "La parfaicte amye", "L'accroissement d'amour", "Complaincte d'une dame", second edition in
1568,
France[3]
Robert Burrant, Preceptes of
Cato with Annotacions of D. Erasmus, main text in verse, with Burrant's prose translation of
Desiderius Erasmus's commentary, along with Burrant's own commentary[4]
Certain Books, including "Speke Parrot", "The Death of Kyng Edward the Fourth", "A Treatise of the Scottes" and "Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng" (see also
1521)[4]
Why Come Ye Not to Court?, publication year uncertain[4]
Other languages
Ludovico Ariosto, Cinque Canti ("Five Cantos"), first publication, a substantial fragment (about 4,400 lines) which appeared as an appendix to an edition of Orlando Furioso; Venice: published by casa di figliuoli di Aldo (the heirs of
Aldus Manutius); most critics believe the fragment was intended as an addition to Orlando Furioso, but many others think the work was meant to be independent[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 6 –
Janus Dousa (died
1604),
Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist
^Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954),
ISBN0-8093-0135-0, "Joachim du Bellay" p 42