Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere ("Songbook"), lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late husband, the second to religion and morals;^[1] a fourth edition of her amatory and elegiac poems, including a larger proportion of pious works, published in Venice; Italy
• Bonaventure des Périers, Recueil des Œuvres de feu Bonaventure des Périers, including his poems, published following his suicide, in Lyon, France
• Clément Marot, Œuvres, edition in definitive arrangement, in Lyon, France
• Maurice Scève, Délie, objet de plus haute vertu ("Delia, Object of the Highest Virtue"), lyric poetry, the first French canzoniere of love poems,^[2] inspired by the style of Petrarch, the poem dedicated to his young student, Pernette du Guillet;^[3] made up of 449 decasyllabic dizains (traditional 10-line strophes) and a prefatory huitain (eight-line strophe); illustrated with 50 emblematic woodcuts; the work for which the author is best known; France^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 11 – Torquato Tasso (died 1595), Italian
• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (died 1590), French writer and poet
• George Turberville, also spelled "George Turbervile", born about this year (died c. 1597), English poet and translator
• Also:
  • Giovanni Botero (died 1617), Italian political theorist, priest, poet, and diplomat
  • Dadu Dayal (died 1603), Indian Sant Mat, poet, and philosopher
  • Robert Garnier (died 1590), French poet and playwright
  • Ginés Pérez de Hita born about this year (died 1619), Spanish novelist and poet
  • José de Sigüenza (died 1606), Spanish historian, poet and theologian
  • George Whetstone born about this year (died c. 1587), English playwright, poet and author

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 12 – Clément Marot (born 1496), French
• December 9 – Teofilo Folengo (born 1491), Italian^[4]
• Antonius Arena, also known as "Antoine Arènes" (born 1500), jurist and poet
• Bonaventure des Périers (born c. 1510), French author and poet (suicide)

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature