Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope
Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists.
Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain
Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages
Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
June 11 – Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican
Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet
Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese
Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet
