1572 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.

EventsEdit

January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".<ref>Template:Cite book (Spellings modernized.)</ref>
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- Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.

Luís de Camões – Os Lusiadas<ref name=npepap>Template:Cite book</ref>
Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Thomas Palfreyman – Divine Meditations

January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)

Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)

March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)