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

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Irish poet Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire composes the poem Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann.
On the death of Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe Desportes became "recognized indisputably as France's greatest living poet," according to 20th century scholar Bernard Weinberg.^[1]

Giordano Bruno, Italy:
- L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes
- De gli eroici furori ("The Heroic Enthusiasts"), a sonnet sequence and commentaries concerning the philosophy of love and love as a means of mystical ascent; dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney
- Cabala del Cavallo pegaseo

January 31 – Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian
March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero (died 1618), Dutch poet and playwright
October 11 – Johann Heermann (died 1647), German poet and hymn writer
November 1 – Jan Brożek (died 1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector
December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (died 1649), Scottish poet
Also:
- Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield (died 1639), English poet, translator and dramatist
- Ján Filický born about this year (died 1623), Slovak poet
- Fang Weiyi (died 1668), Chinese woman poet^[2]

^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
^ Kang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism, p 267, Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3231-0, ISBN 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" Archived 2015-11-24 at the Wayback Machine at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.