1570 in poetry

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Events

Formation in Paris of Antoine de BaÃÂ¯f's AcadÃÂ©mie de PoÃÂ©sie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurÃÂ©e by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.

Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion
Lodovico Castelvetro, ' ("The Poetics of Aristotle in the Vulgar Language"), called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics

Thomas Preston, ', a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith

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Sir Robert Aytoun (died 1638), Scottish poet
EliÃÂ¡ÃÂ¡ LÃÂ¡ni (died 1618), Slovak
Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain (died 1630), English writer of madrigals
Charles Best (died 1627), English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Tadhg mac DÃÂ¡ire Mac Bruaideadha (died 1652), Irish Gaelic poet and historian
Francisco de Medrano born (died 1607), Spanish
Pedro de OÃÂ±a (died 1643), first known Chilean poet
Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain (died c. 1630), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
FranÃÂ§ois du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580 (died 1617), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575 (died 1625), Dutch
Yuan Zhongdao (died 1624), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official

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