1570 in poetry

Events

• Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
• Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.

  Works published

• Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion
• Lodovico Castelvetro, Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata e sposita, called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
• Thomas Preston, A Lamentation from Rome how the Pope doth bewayle the Rebelles in England cannot prevayle. To the tune of "How well, ye mariners", a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith

  Births

• Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
• Eliáš Láni, Slovak
• Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain, English writer of madrigals
• Charles Best, English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon"
• Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha, Irish Gaelic poet and historian
• Francisco de Medrano born, Spanish
• Pedro de Oña, first known Chilean poet
• Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain, English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
• François du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580, French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
• Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575, Dutch
• Yuan Zhongdao, Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official

  Deaths

• March 25 - Johann Walter, German poet and composer
• November - Jacques Grévin, French playwright and poet