1570 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.

Events

• December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.^[1]
• unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
• William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
• Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
• Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)^[3]

Poetry

• See 1570 in poetry

Births

• October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
• December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
• Unknown dates
  • Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
  • Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
  • Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)

Deaths

• February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
• March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
• July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
• October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)^[4]
• November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)