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1571 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1571.

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Events

  • October 7 – Naval Battle of Lepanto: Miguel de Cervantes's left arm is rendered useless; Venetian playwright Luigi Pasqualigo commands a galleon.
  • Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
  • First printing in the Irish language, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney in Dublin.
  • Laurentian Library in Florence opens to scholars.

    • Prose

  • François de Belleforest – La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")
  • Bishop John Jewel – Second Book of Homilies
  • Alonso de Molina
  • Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana
  • Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana

    • Drama

  • Richard Edwards – Damon and Pythias

    • Poetry

  • See 1571 in poetry

    • Deaths

  • May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (born 1511)
  • May 29 – Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran theologian (born 1514)
  • July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)
  • November 24 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech poet and translator (born 1523)
  • December 28 – John Hales, English writer and administrator (born c. 1516)
  • Unknown dates
  • Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (born c. 1505)
  • Bartolomeo Maranta, Italian literary theorist (born 1500)
  • Andrés de Olmos, Spanish grammarian (born c. 1485)

    • In literature

  • Jean Ingelow's narrative poem "The High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" (c.1883) refers to an event of this year.

    • References

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