Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England Works published Joachim du Bellay, France: Des Antiquités de Rome ("Antiquities of Rome") Les Regrets, melancholy satire, a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse" Divers Jeux Rustiques Poésies latines Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549) Giovanni Della Casa; Italy: Lyric Poems Galateo Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar" Also: Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet William Warner (died 1609), English poet Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet See also Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature Notes 16th-century poetry Poetry