1525 in poetry
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Works published[]
- Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century[1]
- Pietro Bembo, Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (Prose della volgar lingua), the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussing verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words, balance and variety; criticism, Italy[2]
- , Titus and Gesippus, publication year uncertain, translated from a Latin version of Boccaccio's Decameron, Day 10, Tale 8[1]
- , The Consolation of Philosophy, translated from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy (see also Geoffrey Chaucer's translation of the same work, 1478 edition)[1]
- Petrarch, edited by , Il Petrarco; the editor reordered the sequence of the "scattered" poems to reflect a narrative of Petrarch's life; the text would be reprinted 29 times in the 16th century; posthumous[3]
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 – Richard Edwardes, also spelled "Richard Edwards" (died 1566), English poet and playwright; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and master of the singing boys
- Pir Roshan (died 1582/1585), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual also writing in Persian and Arabic
- Jan van Casembroot (died 1568), South Holland noble and poet
- Approximate date – Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof (died 1602), German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 27 – Thomas Müntzer (born c. 1489), German theologian and poet, executed
- Jean Lemaire de Belges died about this year (born c. 1473), Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France
- (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet
See also[]
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes[]
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
- ^ Kennedy, William J., "Petrarchan poetics", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 114, Cambridge University Press, 1999,ISBN 0-521-30008-8, ISBN 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
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- 16th-century poetry
- 1525