1568 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1568 in poetry

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Events

Thomas Drant, Epigrams and Sentences Spirituall in Vers, translated from St. Gregory Nazianzus^[1]
Thomas Howell (poet), The Arbor of Amitie^[1]
John Skelton, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, edited by J. Stow;^[1] published posthumously (died 1529) by Thomas Marshe^[2]
George Turberville, A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue, translation of Dominic Mancini's De quatour virtutibus^[1]

François d'Amboise, Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency, France
Petar Hektorović, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje ("Fishing and Fishermen's Talk"), three-part pastoral and philosophic narrative poem written in Croatian and published in Venice

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 2 – Peter Révay (died 1622), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
March 30 – Henry Wotton (died 1639), English diplomat, author and poet
September 3 – Adriano Banchieri (died 1634), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet
September 5 – Tommaso Campanella (died 1639), philosopher and poet
Also:
- Yuan Hongdao (died 1610), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty and one of the Three Yuan Brothers
- Gervase Markham, birth year uncertain (died 1637), English poet and writer

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

September 14 – Jan van Casembroot (born 1525), South Holland noble and poet
December 23 – Roger Ascham (born c. 1515), English scholar, didactic writer and poet; died from a chill contracted when staying up all night to finish a New Year's Day poem for Queen Elizabeth I, whom he had tutored
Abderrahman El Majdoub (born unknown), Berber Moroccan^{[broken anchor]} poet
Antoine Héroet (born unknown), French philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
Luigi Tansillo (born 1510), Italian poet of Petrarchan sonnets and Marinist style

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Rollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century, p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company

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