1573 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1573.

Events

Torquato Tasso's pastoral play Aminta is first performed by I Gelosi in palace gardens in Ferrara.^[1]

Anonymous – New Custom (published)
Jean de La Taille – La Famine, ou les Gabéonites
George Gascoigne (published in A Hundred Sundry Flowers)
- Jocasta
- Supposes
- The Montague Masque
Torquato Tasso – Aminta

Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Œuvres en rime (Works in verse)
George Gascoigne – A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (first collected edition of his verse and drama)
See also 1573 in poetry

November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian (died 1640 in literature)
December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (died 1613 in literature)
Unknown dates
- Severin Binius, German historian (died 1641 in literature)
- Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet (died 1640 in literature)
Approximate year of birth – Samuel Rowlands, English prose and verse pamphleteer (died 1630)

January 1 – Johann Pfeffinger, German Protestant theologian (born 1493)
February – William Lauder, Scottish poet (born c. 1520)
May 14 (burial) – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (born c.1506/7)
July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532)
October 24 – François Baudouin, French controversialist and historian (born 1520)^[2]
November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)
December – Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet (born 1492)^[3]
December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504)
Late – Reginald Wolfe, English printer
Unknown dates
- Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer (born c. 1506–1511)
- Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)