1530 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in which Boccus asks 847 questions and Sidrac answers them.
• Anonymous, Sir Isumbras, publication year uncertain, a romance of separation and reunion of family members, based on the Saint Eustace legend; composed in tail-rhyme in the early 14th century
• Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be from this year to 1532; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval, written in the second half of the 12th century
• Alexander Barclay, translator, Eclogues, publication year uncertain; translated from De miseria curialium of Enea Silvio de Piccolomini ); see also 1521 and Fifth Eclogue 1518

  Italy">Italian poetry">Italy

• Pietro Bembo, Italy:
• * Gli Asolani, a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch; second, revised edition
• * Rime, in Italian
• Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius", Syphilis sive morbus gallicus, an epic poem in five books about a shepherd named Syphilus; the name for syphilis is derived from the work; the poem suggests using mercury and Oil of guaiac as a cure
• Jacopo Sannazaro, Sonetti e Canzoni
• Antonio Tebaldeo, Di M. Antonio Tebaldeo ferrarese l'opere d'amore, published in Venice; Italy

  Other

• Hans Sachs, Das Schlaraffenland, satirical, humorous anecdotes, called "Schwanke", in doggerel verse, Germany

  Births

• November 1 - Étienne de La Boétie, French political philosopher and sonnet writer
• Baltasar del Alcázar,, Spanish
• François de Belleforest, French poet and translator
• Pey de Garros, French Occitan language poet writing in Gascon
• Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish dramatist, poet, and playwright
• Diogo Bernardes born about this year, brother of Frei Agostinho da Cruz, Portuguese
• Jean de la Ceppede, French
• Jan Kochanowski, Pole who published poetry in Polish and Latin
• Judah Moscato , Italian rabbi, poet, and philosopher
• Giovanni Battista Pigna, Italian, Latin-language poet
• William Stevenson, English poet, author and clergyman; presumed playwright

  Deaths

• April 27 - Jacopo Sannazaro died, Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin
• April 28 - Niklaus Manuel, Swiss, German-language poet
• Also:
• * probably late 1529 or early this year - Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright
• * Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla, Indian woman poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan