1553 in poetry
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Template:Quote — 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 Rome, the poet continues to write works which will be published in 1558.[1]
Awards
Works published
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, France[2]
- Hymne sur la naissance de Madame, fille du roi très chrestien Henry, Arnoul L'Angelier, Paris; France
- Pierre de Ronsard, Livret de Folâtries[3]
Other
- Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib. Quatuor, also known as Carmina, edited by Giovanni Battista Pigna[4]
- Jami, Rose Garden of the Pious (illustrated version in the Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.)
- Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, Great Britain[5]
- Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet (who wrote in Middle Scots):
- Eneados ("Aeneid"), translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid 1512–1513; with Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio;[5] the first complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into an 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[5]
Births
- March 29 – Vitsentzos Kornaros (died 1613 or 1614), Cretan poet of the Greek Renaissance, writer of the romantic epic poem Erotokritos
- John Lyly born this year or 1554 (died 1606), English writer, dramatist and poet
Deaths
- March 17 – Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius" (born 1478), Italian (Venetian), physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), atomist and Latin-language poet
- Also:
- Erasmus Alberus (born c. 1500), German
- Hanibal Lucić died about this year (born 1485), Croatian poet and playwright
- Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (born 1465), 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
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- 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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- ↑ 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), Template:ISBN, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43
- ↑ "La vie de Louise Labé" Template:Webarchive, a chronology, also "Olivier de Magny (1529? -1561?)" Template:Webarchive, both in French, retrieved May 17, 2009.
- ↑ 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), Template:ISBN, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
- ↑ Marrone, Gaetana, Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, "Ludovico Ariosto" article by Dennis Looney, p 86, "Selected Works" section, Routledge (2007), Template:ISBN, retrieved August 7, 2010
- ↑ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Template:ISBN
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