1552 in poetry

This article covers 1552 in poetry.

Works

French

• Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
• Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard
• Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes
• Pierre de Ronsard, France:
• Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)
• Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets
• Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

Other

• Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
• Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies

Births

• January 22 – Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources (executed 1618), English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
• February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• Also:
• Jean Bertaut (died 1611), French
• Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian
• Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others (died 1623), Spanish
• Edmund Spenser, born about this year (died 1599), English
• Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire
• Cvijeta Zuzorić (died 1648), Ragusan

Deaths

• Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
• Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes