1573 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1573.

Events

Torquato Tasso's pastoral play Aminta is first performed by I Gelosi in palace gardens in Ferrara.

Drama

Anonymous – New Custom (published)

Jean de La Taille – La Famine, ou les Gabéonites

George Gascoigne (published in A Hundred Sundry Flowers)

Jocasta

Supposes

The Montague Masque

Torquato Tasso – Aminta

Poetry

Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Œuvres en rime (Works in verse)

George Gascoigne – A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (first collected edition of his verse and drama)

See also 1573 in poetry

Births

November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian (died 1640 in literature)

December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (died 1613 in literature)

Unknown dates

Severin Binius, German historian (died 1641 in literature)

Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet (died 1640 in literature)

Approximate year of birth – Samuel Rowlands, English prose and verse pamphleteer (died 1630)

Deaths

January 1 – Johann Pfeffinger, German Protestant theologian (born 1493)

February – William Lauder, Scottish poet (born c. 1520)

May 14 (burial) – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (born c.1506/7)

July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532)

November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)

December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504)

Late – Reginald Wolfe, English printer

Unknown dates

François Baudouin, French controversialist and historian (born 1520)

Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet (born 1492)

Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer (born c. 1506–1511)

Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)

References

1573 in literature Wikipedia

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