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1568 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1568.

Contents

Events

  • Publication of the Bishops' Bible (The Holie Bible), a translation into English under the authority of the Church of England.

    • Prose

  • Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki – De optimo senatore
  • Petar Hektorović – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Discourse on Fishing and Fishermen)
  • Hans Sachs and Jost Amman (illustrations) – Das Ständebuch (Book of Trades)
  • William Turner
  • Of Sage
  • A New Boke on the Natures and Properties of all Wines
  • Giorgio Vasari – Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; revised edition)
  • Christopher Watson (translator) – The hystories of the most famous and worthy chronographer Polybius

    • Children

  • Niels Bredal – The Child's Mirror (in Danish)

    • Drama

  • Ulpian Fulwell – Like Will to Like

    • Poetry

  • François d'Amboise – Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency
  • See also 1568 in poetry

    • Births

  • January 20 – Daniel Cramer, German Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
  • February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist (died 1625)
  • March 30 – Henry Wotton, English diplomat and author (died 1639)
  • July 7 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theater owner (died 1619)
  • September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet (died 1639)
  • Unknown date – Richard Baker, English chronicler (died 1645)

    • Deaths

  • April 7 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian (born 1529)
  • September 14 – Jan van Casembroot, Flemish humanist poet (executed, born c. 1525)
  • December 23 – Roger Ascham, English didact (born c. 1515)
  • Unknown dates
  • Antoine Héroet, French poet
  • Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician, naturalist, and medical writer (born 1501/2)
  • Dirk Philips, Frisian Anabaptist theologian (born 1504)

    • References

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