1571 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1571.

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Events

• October 7 – Naval Battle of Lepanto: Miguel de Cervantes's left arm is rendered useless; Venetian playwright Luigi Pasqualigo commands a galleon.
• unknown dates
  • Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
  • First printing in the Irish language, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney in Dublin.[1]
  • Laurentian Library in Florence opens to scholars.[2]
  • Edict of Gaillon in France places enforcement of censorship laws with the state Chancellor's office instead of the University of Paris.[3]
  • A tidal wave affects parts of Lincolnshire, England. It would be the subject of Jean Ingelow's narrative poem "The High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" (c.1883).[4]

New books

Prose

• François de Belleforest – La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")
• Bishop John Jewel – Second Book of Homilies
• Alonso de Molina
  • Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana
  • Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana

Drama

• Richard Edwards – Damon and Pythias

Poetry

• See 1571 in poetry

Deaths

• May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (born 1511)
• May 29 – Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran theologian (born 1514)
• July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)
• November 24 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech poet and translator (born 1523)
• December 28 – John Hales, English writer and administrator (born c. 1516)
• Unknown dates
  • Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (born c. 1505)
  • Bartolomeo Maranta, Italian literary theorist (born 1500)
  • Andrés de Olmos, Spanish grammarian (born c. 1485)

References

1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 371.
2. Diana Gisolfi; Staale Sinding-Larsen (1998). The Rule, the Bible, and the Council: The Library of the Benedictine Abbey at Praglia. College Art Association. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-295-97661-7.
3. Pottinger, David Thomas (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 59. OCLC 7385496598.
4. William White (of Sheffield.) (1872). History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, and the City and Diocese of Lincoln: Comprising a General Survey of the County : and Separate Historical, Statistical and Topographical Descriptions of All the Wapentakes, Hundreds, Sokes, Boroughs ... W. White. p. 21.