1568 in literature

Events

• October – The Bishops' Bible is published as a translation into English made under the authority of the Church of England.

  New books

Prose

• Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki – De optimo senatore
• Petar Hektorović – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje
• Hans Sachs and Jost Amman – Das Ständebuch
• William Turner
• *Of Sage
• *A New Boke on the Natures and Properties of all Wines
• Giorgio Vasari – Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori
• Christopher Watson – The hystories of the most famous and worthy chronographer Polybius

  Children

• Niels Bredal – The Child's Mirror

  Drama

• Ulpian Fulwell – Like Will to Like

  Poetry

• François d'Amboise – Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency
• See also 1568 in poetry

  Births

• January 20 – Daniel Cramer, German Lutheran theologian
• February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist
• March 30 – Henry Wotton, English diplomat and author
• July 7 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theater owner
• September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet
• Unknown date – Richard Baker, English chronicler

  Deaths

• April 7 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian
• September 14 – Jan van Casembroot, Flemish humanist poet
• December 23 – Roger Ascham, English didact
• Unknown dates
• *Antoine Héroet, French poet
• *Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician, naturalist, and medical writer
• *Dirk Philips, Frisian Anabaptist theologian