1566 in poetry
# 1566 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Works published

### England

* Peter Beverley, The Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura
* Thomas Churchyard:
   * Churchyard's Round
   * Churchyardes Farewell
   * Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp
* Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* October 6 (birth year uncertain) — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
* November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
* Also:
   * Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
   * Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
   * John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
   * Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* April 25 – Louise Labé (born ca. 1524), French
* September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
* September 7 – Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
* September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
* October 31 – Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
* November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian
