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{{quote|text=The batalis and the man I wil discrive,<br /> 
Fra Troys boundis first that fugitive<br /> 
By fait to Ytail come and cost Lavyne;<br /> 
Our land and sey kachit with mekil pyne,<br /> 
By fors of goddis abuse, from euery steid,<br /> 
Of cruell Juno throu ald remembrit fede.<br /> 
Gret pane in batail sufferit he alsso,<br /> 
Or he his goddis brocht in Latio,<br /> 
And belt the cite, fra quham, of nobill fame,<br /> 
The Latyne pepill takyn heth thar name,<br /> 
And eik the faderis, princis of Alba,<br /> 
Cam, and the wallaris of gret Rome alswa.}}
— Opening lines from [[Gavin Douglas]]' ''[[Eneados]]'', a translation, into [[Middle Scots]] of Virgil's ''Aeneid''

==Events==
* [[Joachim du Bellay]] accompanies (and is secretary to) his cousin, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, on a visit to Rome which lasts until August [[1557 in poetry|1557]]. In Rome, the poet continues to write works which will be published in [[1558 in poetry|1558]].<ref>Weinberg, Bernard, ed., ''French Poetry of the Renaissance'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), {{ISBN|0-8093-0135-0}}, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43</ref>

==Awards==
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==Works published==
[[Image:Jami Rose Garden.jpg|right|thumb|Illustration from Persian poet [[Jami]]'s ''Rose Garden of the Pious'']]

===[[French poetry|France]]===
* [[Olivier de Magny]]:
** ''Les Amours'' 102 sonnets addressed to "Castianire", often identified as [[Louise Labe]], preceded by a sonnet often attributed to her; Paris: Estienne Groulleau, [[French poetry|France]]<ref name=ll>[http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/biolab.html "La vie de Louise Labé"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204000729/http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/biolab.html |date=2009-02-04 }}, a chronology, also [http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/magny.html "Olivier de Magny (1529? -1561?)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424070744/http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/magny.html |date=2009-04-24 }}, both in French, retrieved May 17, 2009.</ref>
** ''Hymne sur la naissance de Madame, fille du roi très chrestien Henry'', Arnoul L'Angelier, Paris; [[French poetry|France]]
* [[Pierre de Ronsard]], ''Livret de Folâtries''<ref>Weinberg, Bernard, ed., ''French Poetry of the Renaissance'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), {{ISBN|0-8093-0135-0}}, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70</ref>

===Other===
* [[Ludovico Ariosto]], ''Carminum Lib. Quatuor'', also known as ''Carmina'', edited by Giovanni Battista Pigna<ref>Marrone, Gaetana, [https://books.google.com/books?id=69ey6Z-05fMC ''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies''], "Ludovico Ariosto" article by Dennis Looney, p 86, "Selected Works" section, Routledge (2007), {{ISBN|1-57958-390-3}}, retrieved August 7, 2010</ref>
* [[Jami]], ''Rose Garden of the Pious'' (illustrated version in the Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.)
* Anonymous, ''[[Pierce the Ploughman's Crede|Pierce the Ploughmans Crede]]'', [[English poetry|Great Britain]]<ref name=cocel>Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}</ref>
* [[Gavin Douglas]], [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] poet (who wrote in [[Middle Scots]]):
**''[[Eneados]]'' ("Aeneid"), translated from the [[Latin poetry|Latin]] of [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' [[1512 in poetry|1512]]–[[1513 in poetry|1513]]; with Book 13 by [[Maffeo Vegio]];<ref name=cocel/> the first complete translation of any major work of [[classical antiquity]] into an [[Anglic languages|Anglic language]]; the first printed edition, published in  London by the press of [[William Copland]]; the edition displays an anti–Roman Catholic bias, in that references (in the prologues) to the Virgin Mary, Purgatory, and Catholic ceremonies are altered or omitted; 66 lines of the translation, describing the amour of Dido and Aeneas, are omitted as indelicate.
** ''The Palis of Honoure'',  publication year uncertain; second edition, substantially changed<ref name=cocel/>

==Births==
* March 29 – [[Vitsentzos Kornaros]] (died [[1613 in poetry|1613]] or 1614), [[Crete|Cretan]] poet of the [[Greek Renaissance]], writer of the romantic epic poem ''[[Erotokritos]]''
* [[John Lyly]] born this year or 1554 (died [[1606 in poetry|1606]]), [[English poetry|English]] writer, dramatist and poet

==Deaths==
* March 17 – [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], also known as "Fracastorius" (born [[1478 in poetry|1478]]), [[Italian poetry|Italian]] (Venetian), physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), atomist and [[Latin poetry|Latin]]-language poet
* Also:
** [[Erasmus Alberus]] (born c. [[1500 in poetry|1500]]), [[German poetry|German]]
** [[Hanibal Lucić]] died about this year (born [[1485 in poetry|1485]]), [[Croatian poetry|Croatian]] poet and playwright
** [[Yamazaki Sōkan]] 山崎宗鑑, [[pen name]] of Shina Norishige (born [[1465 in poetry|1465]]), [[Japanese poetry|Japanese]] ''[[renga]]'' and ''[[haikai]]'' poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun [[Ashikaga Yoshihisa]]; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
* [[Poetry]]
* [[16th century in poetry]]
* [[16th century in literature]]
* [[Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature]]
* [[French Renaissance literature]]
* [[Renaissance literature]]
* [[Spanish Renaissance literature]]

==Notes==
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