1570 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.
Events
- December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.{{cite book|author=John Black|title=Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YLo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA161|year=1810|publisher=John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London|pages=161–}}
- unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), [http://www.grovemusic.com/ grovemusic.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }} (subscription access)
New books
=Prose=
- Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
- William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
- Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
- Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas){{cite book |url=http://mail.nysoclib.org/Mercator_Atlas/MCRATS.PDF |title=Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura |first=Gerardu |last=Mercator |first2=Robert W. Jr.|last2=Karrow |publisher=Library of Congress |page=2 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/Mercator_Atlas/MCRATS.PDF |archivedate=2016-03-10 }}
=Poetry=
- See 1570 in poetry
Births
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
- December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
- Unknown dates
- Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
- Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)
Deaths
- February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
- March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
- July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
- October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496){{cite book|author=Charles Ralph Boxer|title=João de Barros|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFvIGilXkVQC&pg=PA32|year=1981|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|pages=32}}
- November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)
References
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