1516 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

Works published

Title page, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

• Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version (see also 1532), Italy
• Robert Fabyan, Chronicle, London: Richard Pynson, publisher; Great Britain[1]
• Baptista Mantuanus, Italian poet writing in Latin published in France:
  • Agellaria[2]
  • De sacris diebus, 12 books, explaining the various saints' days of the church calendar, published in Lyon[2]
• Garcia de Resende, editor, Cancioneiro Geral ("General Songbook"), anthology, Portugal[3]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 26 – Konrad Gesner (died 1565), Swiss, German-language naturalist, bibliographer and poet
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius (died 1571), German poet, historian and archaeologist

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (born 1447), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet
• Ugolino Verino (born 1438), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature

• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. Web page titled "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603", at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. Archived 2009-09-11.
2. Mantuanus, Baptista The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus, edited by Wilfred Pirt Mustard, The Johns Hopkins press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books, May 17, 2009
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.