1573 in literature
# 1573 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1573.

## Events

* Torquato Tasso's pastoral play Aminta is first performed by I Gelosi in palace gardens in Ferrara.

## New books

### Drama

* Anonymous – New Custom (published)
* Jean de La Taille – La Famine, ou les Gabéonites
* George Gascoigne (published in A Hundred Sundry Flowers)
   * Jocasta
   * Supposes
   * The Montague Masque
* Torquato Tasso – Aminta

### Poetry

* Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Œuvres en rime (Works in verse)
* George Gascoigne – A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (first collected edition of his verse and drama)
* See also 1573 in poetry

## Births

* November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian (died 1640 in literature)
* December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (died 1613 in literature)
* Unknown dates
   * Severin Binius, German historian (died 1641 in literature)
   * Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet (died 1640 in literature)
* Approximate year of birth – Samuel Rowlands, English prose and verse pamphleteer (died 1630)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Johann Pfeffinger, German Protestant theologian (born 1493)
* February – William Lauder, Scottish poet (born c. 1520)
* May 14 (burial) – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (born c.1506/7)
* July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532)
* October 24 – François Baudouin, French controversialist and historian (born 1520)
* November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)
* December – Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet (born 1492)
* December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504)
* Late – Reginald Wolfe, English printer
* Unknown dates
   * Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer (born c. 1506–1511)
   * Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)
