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- Cristóbal de Castillejo, Works of Castillejo Expurgated by the Inquisition, published posthumously in Madrid, Spain[1]
- Philippe Desportes, Les premières œuvres de Philippe Desportes, which had circulated widely in manuscript form and were largely love poems (in imitation of minor Italian poets),[2] including "Les Amours de Diane", "les Amours d’Hippolyte", "Élégies", France
- Johann Fischart (writing under the pen name "Hultrich Elloposcleron") and another author, The Flea Hunt, a burlesque; a flea complains to Jupiter about the hard treatment it receives from women; Fischart wrote the second part, in which women reply and are defended; Germany[3]
- George Gascoigne, A Hundred Sundry Flowers, Great Britain
- Torquato Tasso, Aminta, pastoral verse drama, Italy[4]
- Pontus de Tyard, Nouvell'Œuvres poétiques, France
- December 21 – Mathurin Régnier (died 1613), French satirical poet, nephew of Philippe Desportes
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- Thomas Heywood, born about this year (died 1641), English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author
- Richard Johnson (died 1659), English romance writer, playwright and poet
- Daniel Naborowski (died 1640), Polish
- Martin Peerson born sometime from 1571 to this year (died December 1650 or January 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist writing hymns, madrigals and other sacred and secular music
- Samuel Rowlands, born about this year (died 1630), English author of pamphlets in prose and verse
- February – William Lauder (born 1520), Scottish cleric, playwright and poet
- July – Étienne Jodelle (born 1532), French poet and playwright
- November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, who gave himself the nickname "Cinthio", also rendered "Cynthius", "Cintio" or, in Italian, "Cinzio" (born 1504), Italian novelist, writer, poet and playwright
- Also:
Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications