1582 in poetry
# 1582 in poetry

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

## Works published

### Great Britain

* Philip Sidney (attributed), Astrophil and Stella
* Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis
* Thomas Watson, Hecatompathia; or, Passionate Centurie of Love

### Other

* Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous
* Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
* Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain

## Births

* January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621)
* April 8 (bapt.) - Phineas Fletcher (died 1650), English
* November 21 - François Maynard (died 1646), French
* Late - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (died 1622), Spanish
* Also:
   * Richard Corbet (died 1635), English poet and bishop
   * Francesc Vicent Garcia (died 1623), Catalan poet
   * Giovanni Valentini (died 1649), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
   * John Vicars (died 1652), English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
* Possible date - Nef'i (executed 1635), Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist

## Deaths

* July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans (born 1517), French humanist poet
* September 28 - George Buchanan (born 1506), Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
* Arnoldus Arlenius (born 1510), Dutch humanist philosopher and poet
* Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ottoman Turkish poet
* Natalis Comes (born 1520), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
* Adam Reusner died sometime between 1563 and this year (born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
* 1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
* 1582/1583: Alexander Scott (born 1520), Scottish
