1570 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1570.

Events

• 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.
• Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.

New books

• Roger Ascham - The Scholemaster (posthumously published)
• William Baldwin - Beware the Cat (new edition)
• Thomas North - The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (a translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
• Abraham Ortelius - Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)

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)
• November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)