1570 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.
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Events
- December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.[1]
- unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.[2]
New books
Prose
- Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
- William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
- Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
- Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)[3]
Poetry
- See 1570 in poetry
Births
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
- December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
- Unknown dates
- Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
- Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)
Deaths
- February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
- March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
- July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
- October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)[4]
- November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)
References
- John Black (1810). Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings. John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London. pp. 161–.
- Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access)
- Mercator, Gerardu; Karrow, Jr., Robert W. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (PDF). Library of Congress. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-10.
- Charles Ralph Boxer (1981). João de Barros. Concept Publishing Company. p. 32.
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