1580 in literature
# 1580 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1580.

## Events

* March – Thomas Legge's Latin play about Richard III of England, Richardus Tertius, the first known history play performed in England, is acted by students at St John's College, Cambridge.
* July 12 – The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible translation into a Slavic language (Old Church Slavonic), is first printed at Ostroh in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Ukraine) by Ivan Fyodorov.

## New books

* Book of Concord
* Jean Bodin – De la demonomanie des sorciers
* Veronica Franco – Lettere familiari a diversi
* Robert Greene – Mamillia
* John Lyly – Euphues and his England
* Michel de Montaigne – Essais
* Anthony Munday – Zelauto

## New drama

* Robert Garnier – Antigone
* Thomas Legge – Richardus Tertius

## Poetry

* Luís Vaz de Camões – Luís Vaz de Camões
* Jan Kochanowski – Laments (Treny)

## Births

* March 5 – Christophe Justel, French scholar (died 1649)
* April 18 (date of baptism) – Thomas Middleton, English poet and dramatist (died 1627)
* June 9 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655)
* September 17 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645)
* October 12 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish poet (died 1633)
* unknown dates
   * Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, French theologian (died 1646)
   * Manuel de Almeida, Spanish historian (died 1646)
   * Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (died 1664)
   * Philipp Clüver, German historian (died 1623)
   * Ling Mengchu (凌濛初), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1644)
   * Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet (died 1621)
   * Francisco de Lugo, Spanish theologian (died 1652)

## Deaths

* May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English poet (born 1524)
* June 10 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c.1524)
* June 22 – Hernando de Acuña, Spanish translator (born c.1520)
* August 20 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born 1506)
* October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (born 1516)
* November 3 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512)
* unknown dates
   * Sebastián de Horozco, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1510)
   * Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c.1532)
* probable – Raphael Holinshed, chronicler
