The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1576.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
- Luigi Pasqualigo â Il Fedele
- George Wapull â The Tide Tarrieth No Man published
Poetry
Births
- January 12 â Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian (died 1660)
- May 27 â Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)
- June 6 â Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)
- October â John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)
- October 30 â Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)
- unknown dates
- William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)
- Johann Bogermann, Dutch translator (died 1637)
- Samuel Collins, theologian (died 1651)
- Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Elizabethan poet (died 1638)
- Goldastus, Swiss Calvinist historian (died 1635)
- John Weever, English poet and antiquary (died 1632)
Deaths
- January 19 â Hans Sachs, German poet and dramatist (born 1494)
- February 10 â Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)
- March 18 â Johann Stössel, German Lutheran theologian (born 1524; died in prison)
- May 2 â Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish theologian (born 1503)
- June 30 â Franciscus Sonnius, Flemish theologian (born 1506)
- October 14 â Konrad Heresbach, Calvinist writer (born 1496)
- unknown dates
- Basil Faber, German theologian (born 1520)
- Aloysius Lilius, Italian philosopher (born c. 1510)
- Lancelot Ridley, English theologian
- Mavro VetranoviÃÂ, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482)
References