1572 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1572.

Events

• January 3 - James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".
• Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.
• George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.

New books

• Remy Belleau - La bergerie (2nd edition)
• Rafael Bombelli - L'Algebra
• John Field - A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church
• Libro d'Oro of Corfu
• Bishops' Bible (revised version)

New drama

• Jean de la Taille - Saül le furieux

Poetry

• Luís de Camões - Os Lusiadas
• Fernando de Herrera - Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan
• Thomas Palfreyman - Divine Meditations

Births

• January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
• January 22 – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)
• June 11 – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)
• July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)
• James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)

Deaths

• March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
• April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
• June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
• September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)
• September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)

In literature

• Alexandre Dumas' novel La Reine Margot (1844–45) presents a fictionalised account of events this August in Paris.