Misplaced Pages

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• Ludovico Ariosto begins work on his Orlando Furioso

Works published

• Publio Fausto Andrelini, Eclogues, full of proverbial expressions
• William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis, Scotland
• Stephen Hawes, The Passtyme of Pleasure (completed, approximate date), England
• Niccolò Machiavelli, The First Decade (Decennale primo), Italy

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February – George Buchanan (died 1582), Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
• Approximate date – Hwang Jini (died c.1560), Korean poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• Mihri Hatun (born unknown), female Ottoman poet
• Johannes von Soest (born 1448), German composer, theorist and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
2. David, Wootton, Selected Political Writings by Niccolò Machiavelli, p. 37

v t e Poetry of different cultures and languages
Afghan Albanian American Anglo-Welsh Arabic Assamese Australian Bengali Biblical British Bosnian Bulgarian Byzantine Canadian Chinese Cantonese Cornish English Estonian Finnish French Greek Guernésiais Gujarati Hindi Hebrew Indian Indian epic Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Jèrriais Kannada Kashmiri Korean Latin Latin American Latino Manx Marathi Malayalam Nepali New Zealand Old English Old Norse Ottoman Pakistani Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rajasthani Russian Sanskrit Classical Vedic Scottish Serbian Serbian epic Sindhi Slovak Spanish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Urdu Vietnamese Welsh
Poetry portal

v t e Lists of poets
By language	Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Assamese Awadhi Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch English French German Greek (Ancient) Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kashmiri Konkani Kannada Korean Kurdish Latin Maithili Malayalam Maltese Manipuri Marathi Nepali Oriya Pashto Pennsylvania Dutch Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rajasthani Romanian Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Sorbian Spanish Swedish Syriac Tamil Telugu Turkic Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Welsh Yiddish
By nationality or culture	Afghan American Argentine Australian Austrian Bangladeshi Bosniak Brazilian Breton Bulgarian Canadian Chicano Estonian Finnish Ghanaian Greek Indian Iraqi Irish Israeli Mexican Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Ottoman Pakistani Peruvian Romani Romanian Somali South African Swedish Swiss Syrian Turkish
By type	Anarchist Early-modern women (England, Wales, Great Britain) Feminist Lyric Modernist National Performance Romantic Speculative Surrealist War Women
Poetry portal

• 16th-century poetry
• 1506