1566 in poetry

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