1568 in literature

• October – The Bishops' Bible (inscribed The Holie Bible) is published as a translation into English made under the authority of the Church of England.[http://textusreceptusbibles.com/Bishops Short account. Retrieved 4 May 2020.]

• Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki – De optimo senatore{{cite book|author1=Dirk Sacré|author2=Jan Papy|author3=Monique Mund-Dopchie|title=Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nU9kAYNNMHUC&pg=PA489|date=December 2009|publisher=Leuven University Press|isbn=978-90-5867-766-2|pages=489}}
• Petar Hektorović – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Discourse on Fishing and Fishermen){{cite book|author1=Zara Martirosova Torlone|author2=Dana LaCourse Munteanu|author3=Dorota Dutsch|title=A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9neDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|date=17 April 2017|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-83271-4|pages=20}}
• 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{{cite book |author=Polybius |author-link=Polybius |title=The Rise Of The Roman Empire

|editor=Walbank, Frank W. |editor2=Scott-Kilvert, Ian |page=36 |publisher=Penguin Classics |year=1979 |isbn=0-14-044362-2}}

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

• Ulpian Fulwell – Like Will to Like
• William Wager – The Longer Thou Livest, The More Foole Thou Art

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

• 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){{cite book|author1=Eglise wallonne (Norwich, England)|author2=William John Charles Moens|title=The Walloons and Their Church at Norwich: Their History and Registers. 1565-1832 ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4v8UAAAAQAAJ|year=1887|publisher=Huguenot Society of London|page=230}}
• 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)

• 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)

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