1570 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.

## Events[edit]

* December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.[1]
* unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.[2]

## New books[edit]

### Prose[edit]

* Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
* William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
* Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
* Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)[3]

### Poetry[edit]

* See 1570 in poetry

## Births[edit]

* October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
* December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
* Unknown dates
* Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
* Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
* Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)

## Deaths[edit]

* February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
* March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
* July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
* October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)[4]
* November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)

## References[edit]

1. ^ John Black (1810). Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings. John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London. pp. 161–.
2. ^ Frank Dobbins. "Jean-Antoine de Baïf", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 18, 2007), grovemusic.com Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine (subscription access)
3. ^ Mercator, Gerardu; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (PDF). Library of Congress. p. 2\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-10.
4. ^ Charles Ralph Boxer (1981). João de Barros. Concept Publishing Company. p. 32.