1582 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
• Richard Stanyhurst, '
• Thomas Watson, '

  Other

• Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
• Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain

  Births

• January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet
• April 8 - Phineas Fletcher, English
• November 21 - François Maynard, French
• Late - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish
• Also:
• * Richard Corbet, English poet and bishop
• * Francesc Vicent Garcia, Catalan poet
• * Giovanni Valentini, Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
• * John Vicars, English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
• Possible date - Nef'i, Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist

  Deaths

• July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet
• September 28 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
• Arnoldus Arlenius, Dutch humanist philosopher and poet
• Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ottoman Turkish poet
• Natalis Comes, Italian mythographer, poet and historian
• Adam Reusner died sometime between 1563 and this year, German
• 1582/1585: Pir Roshan, Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
• 1582/1583: Alexander Scott, Scottish