1574 in literature

Events

• unknown dates
• *Exercicio quotidiano, a religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language, is created.
• *The Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov prints the second edition of his Apostolos and the first Azbuka in Cyrillic script.

  Prose

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures
• Matthias Flacius et al. – Magdeburg Centuries
• Nicolás Monardes – Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
• Elizabeth Tyrwhitt – Morning and Evening Prayers

  Poetry

• See 1574 in poetry

  Births

• September – Thomas Gataker, English theologian
• September 18 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet
• November 4 – Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist
• Unknown dates
• *Richard Barnfield, English poet
• *Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian
• *John Day, English dramatist
• *Feng Menglong, Chinese vernacular poet
• *Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist

  Deaths

• January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher
• April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar
• June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists
• November 7 – Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author
• November 28 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian
• December 10 – Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo
• Unknown dates
• *Gáspár Heltai, Transylvanian writer in German
• *Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer
• *Antonio Minturno, Italian poet and critic
• *Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer
• *Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian