1552 in poetry

Works

French">French poetry">French

• Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
• Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard
• Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes
• Pierre Ronsard, France:
• * Fifth Book of Odes
• * Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets
• * Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

  Other

• Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
• Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies

  Births

• January 22 - Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources, English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
• February 8 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• Also:
• * Jean Bertaut, French
• * Abraham Fleming, poet, translator and antiquarian
• * Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others, Spanish
• * Edmund Spenser, born about this year, English
• * Seyhulislam Yahya, Ottoman Empire
• * Cvijeta Zuzorić, Ragusan

  Deaths

• Bernardim Ribeiro , Portuguese
• Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 , Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• Alexander Barclay, English/Scottish poet
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian scholar and poet

  Events