1553 in poetry

Events

• Joachim du Bellay accompanies 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.

  Awards

Works published

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• 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
• * Hymne sur la naissance de Madame, fille du roi très chrestien Henry, Arnoul L'Angelier, Paris; France
• Pierre de Ronsard, Livret de Folâtries

  Other

• Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib. Quatuor, also known as Carmina, edited by Giovanni Battista Pigna
• Jami, Rose Garden of the Pious
• Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, Great Britain
• Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet :
• *Eneados, translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid 1512–1513; with Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio; 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 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

  Births

• March 29 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Cretan poet of the Greek Renaissance, writer of the romantic epic poem Erotokritos
• John Lyly born this year or 1554, English writer, dramatist and poet

  Deaths

• March 17 – Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius", Italian, physician, scholar, atomist and Latin-language poet
• Also:
• * Erasmus Alberus, German
• * Hanibal Lucić died about this year, Croatian poet and playwright
• * Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige, Japanese renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489