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1572 literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.
Events
January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".E. K. Chambers E. K. Chambers The Elizabethan Stage Oxford Clarendon Press 1923 2 87-8 (Spellings modernized.)
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Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.Anthony Fletcher Peter Roberts Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson https://books.google.com/books?id=-ARz0QNygfYC&pg=PA29 2 November 2006 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-02804-2 29
George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.
New books
Remy Belleau – La Bergerie (2nd edition)
Rafael Bombelli – L'AlgebraHans Niels Jahnke A History of Analysis https://books.google.com/books?id=CVRZEXFVsZkC&pg=PA213 American Mathematical Soc. 978-0-8218-9050-9 213
John Field – A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
Libro d'Oro of Corfu
Bishops' Bible (revised version)
New drama
Jean de la Taille – Saül le furieuxCorinne Noirot-Maguire Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France Persels, J. Ganim, R. February 2010 121-43
Poetry
Luís de Camões – Os LusiadasPreminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 New York MJF Books/Fine Communications etal
Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don JuanFernando de Herrera Dictionary of Literary Biography 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book Kaplan, Gregory B. University of Tennessee; Gale 2005 113–119
Thomas Palfreyman – Divine Meditations
Births
January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)David Colclough John Donne's Professional Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=vehTu2WHAKEC&pg=PA40 2003 DS Brewer 978-0-85991-775-9 40
June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)Ben Jonson Five Plays https://books.google.com/books?id=eXmjyZgJmQ4C&pg=PR15 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-283944-2 15
July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)
Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)
Deaths
March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)
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