Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
Works published
England
Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain
Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), (see also Metamorphosis [Books 1–15]) Barnabe Googe, translation (from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life (see also editions of 1560, 1561)
France
Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril; revised and expanded 1572; France Pierre de Ronsard: Abrégé de l'art poétique français, a handbook intended for beginners in poetry; French criticism Élegies, Mascarades, et Bergerie
Other
Jan Kochanowski, Chess ("Szachy"), published either this year or in 1564; Polish
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni (died 1635), Italian Also: Cheng Jiasui (died 1643), Chinese landscape painter and poet John Davies of Hereford, birth year uncertain (died 1618), English Francis Meres (died 1647), English churchman, author, critic and poet Konoe Nobutada (died 1614), Japanese courtier and man of letters known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist Andrzej Zbylitowski (died 1608), Polish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: October 14 - Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (born 1521), English December 13 - Konrad Gesner (born 1516), German Benedetto Varchi, (born 1502 or 1503), Italian, Latin-language poet Approximate date - Hwang Jini (born 1522), Korean kisaeng