1546 in poetry

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Events

• After meeting with Jacques Peletier du Mans, Joachim du Bellay decides to go to Paris, where he meets Pierre de Ronsard and Jean-Antoine de Baïf, who were studying Greek and Latin under Jean Daurat, also a poet.^[1]

Works published

• Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France
• Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M. Ludovico Ariosto, edited by Iacopo Coppa Modanese; Italy^[2]
• John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of all the Proverbes in the Englishe Tongue; Great Britain^[3]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Philippe Desportes (died 1606), French poet
• Veronica Franco (died 1591), Italian poet and courtesan

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 18 – Martin Luther died (born 1483), German theologian and poet
• July 16 – Anne Askew, also spelled "Anne Ayscough" (born 1521) English poet and Protestant who was persecuted as a heretic; the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London, before being burnt at the stake
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet (born 1509), French writer, poet and humanist
• Also:
  • Pietro Bonomo, also known as "Petrus" (born 1458), Italian, humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin-language poet^[4]
  • Nikolaus Decius died sometime after this year (born 1485), German

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Joachim du Bellay" p 42
2. Marrone, Gaetana, Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, "Ludovico Ariosto" article by Dennis Looney, p 86, "Selected Works" section, retrieved August 7, 2010
3. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" Archived 2009-05-27 at WebCite at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009