1575 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1575.

Events

• July – Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
• September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates.
• unknown date
• The first primer in the Estonian language is published.
• First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor appears. It was originally written in 1335.

New books

Prose

• Anonymous – Arbatel de magia veterum
• Ulpian Fulwell – The Flower of Fame (appendices in verse)

Drama

• George Gascoigne – The Glass of Government

Poetry

• Veronica Franco – Terze rime

Births

• April – Jakob Böhme, German theologian (died 1624)
• August 14 – Robert Hayman, Newfoundland poet (died 1624)
• August 15 – Bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian linguist (died 1650)
• Unknown dates
• David Calderwood, Scottish historian (died 1650)
• John Cotta, English physician and writer (died 1650)
• Giovanni Stefano Menochio, Italian Jesuit scholar (died 1655)
• Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (died 1626)
• William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (died 1641)

Deaths

• March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian writing in Latin (born 1520)
• June 9 – Paulus Aemilius, Hebrew bibliographer and publisher
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (born c. 1505)
• August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet (born 1503)
• September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian (born 1504)
• December 1 – Diogo de Paiva de Andrada, Portuguese theologian (born 1528)
• December 18 – Marcin Bielski, Polish chronicler and poet (born 1495)
• unknown dates
• Sir William Stevenson, English poet (born 1530)
• Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (born 1508)

References