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1559 poetry literature
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ("Index of Prohibited Books"). Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s."Late Renaissance Thought and the New Universe / Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus", at the "Mathematics Across the Curriculum at Dartmouth College" website, retrieved May 22, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
Works published
Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France
Antonio Minturno, De poeta ("On Poetry"), Italian criticism (generally thought to be a source of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesie 1595)Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, PortugueseKurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, 0-8160-4197-0
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France"La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, and Web page titled "Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)", both in French, retrieved May 17, 2009.
Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A. Wechel
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (died 1613), Spanish poet, playwright and chronicler, brother of poet Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola
George Chapman (died 1634), English dramatist, translator, and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Nicolas Denisot (born 1515), French Renaissance poet and painter
Yang Shen (born 1488), Chinese poet
Wen Zhengming (born 1470), Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher
See also
Poetry
Poetry
16th century in poetry
16th century in literature
Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
Elizabethan literature
French Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature
Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
Category:16th-century poetry
Poetry