Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard
Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes
Pierre Ronsard, France:
Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)
Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets
Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur
Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies
February 8 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
Also:
Jean Bertaut, (died 1611), French
Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian
Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others (died 1623), Spanish
Sir Walter Ralegh born about this year (died 1618), English
Edmund Spenser born about this year (died 1599), English
Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire
Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet
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