the Emperor Akbar November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish Also: Meurig Dafydd (born c. 1510), Welsh bard Thomas Edwards (born unknown), English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus See also Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature University Wits Notes 16th-century poetry Poetry 1595 poems