# 1560 in poetry

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## Events

* Pierre de Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France
* José de Anchieta, De Gestis Mendi de Saa, written about this year, published in 1563; Portuguese in Brazil

## Works published
### France

* Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticism
* Jacques Grévin, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du Bellay and Rémy Belleau
* Pierre de Ronsard, France:
** Discours
** Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition

### Great Britain

* Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey
* William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt
* Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
* Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565
* John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562
* Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in English
* Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain

### Other

* Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice
* Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), Hebrew work published in Istanbul

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* August 4 – Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
* Also:
** Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet
** William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
** Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish
** Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator
** Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
** Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
** John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 1 – Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet
* April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet
* August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
* December 21 – Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer
* Approximate date – Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet