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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.
Events
- January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".[1]
- unknown dates
- Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.[2]
- George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.
New books
- Remy Belleau – La Bergerie (2nd edition)
- Rafael Bombelli – L'Algebra[3]
- John Field – A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
- Libro d'Oro of Corfu
- Bishops' Bible (revised version)
New drama
- Jean de la Taille – Saül le furieux[4]
Poetry
- Luís de Camões – Os Lusiadas[5]
- Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan[6]
- Thomas Palfreyman – Divine Meditations
Births
- January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
- January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)[7]
- June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)[8]
- July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)
Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)
Deaths
- March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
- April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
- June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
- September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
- September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)
References
- ↑ Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 87–8. (Spellings modernized.)
- ↑ Anthony Fletcher; Peter Roberts (2 November 2006). Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-521-02804-2.
- ↑ Hans Niels Jahnke. A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Soc. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8218-9050-9.
- ↑ Noirot-Maguire, Corinne (February 2010), Persels, J.; Ganim, R. (eds.), "Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste", EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, pp. 121–43
- ↑ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
- ↑ Kaplan, Gregory B., ed. (2005). "Fernando de Herrera". Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Vol. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. University of Tennessee; Gale. pp. 113–119.
- ↑ David Colclough (2003). John Donne's Professional Lives. DS Brewer. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-85991-775-9.
- ↑ Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.
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