1575 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1575.

Events

Venetian poet and courtesan Veronica Franco painted in the style of Tintoretto c.1575

• September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates.
• Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
• The first primer in the Estonian language is published.
• First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor appears. It was originally written in 1335.

New books

• Anonymous – Arbatel de magia veterum

New drama

• George Gascoigne – The Glass of Government

Poetry

• Veronica Franco – Terze rime

Births

• April – Jakob Böhme, German theologian (died 1624)
• August 14 – Robert Hayman, Newfoundland poet (died 1624)
• August 15 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist (died 1650)
• Unknown dates
  • David Calderwood, Scottish historian (died 1650)
  • John Cotta, English physician and writer (died 1650)
  • Giovanni Stefano Menochio, Italian Jesuit scholar (died 1655)
  • Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (died 1626)
  • William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (died 1641)

Deaths

• March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian writing in Latin (born 1520)
• June 9 – Paulus Aemilius, Hebrew bibliographer and publisher
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (born c. 1505)
• August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet (born 1503)
• September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian (born 1504)
• December 1 – Diogo de Paiva de Andrada, Portuguese theologian (born 1528)
• December 18 – Marcin Bielski, Polish chronicler and poet (born 1495)
• Unknown date – Sir William Stevenson, English poet (born 1530)

In literature

• Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (1821) is set around this year.