1547 in poetry

This article covers 1547 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans
Antoine Héroët, Opuscules d'amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poetes, including Héroët's Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour; published in Lyon, France
Marguerite de Navarre, Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, long devotional poem
Maurice Scève, La Saulsaye, églogue de la vie solitaire, a pastoral poem consisting of a debate between two shepherds on the subject of the differences between town and country and on the court

Martynas Mažvydas, Catechismus, the first printed Lithuanian book, includes a dedication in Latin "To the Great Duchy of Lithuania", two prefaces: in Latin, and in Lithuanian, a catechism, and the book of songs; the rhymed preface in Lithuanian, "The Appeal of The Small Book Itself Unto Lithuanians and Samogitians", has been called "the first authentic verse in Lithuanian"
Tullia d'Aragona, Rime, Italy
Giangiorgio Trissino, L'Italia liberata dai Goti, epic poem, Italy

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

Sheikh Bahaii, Persian scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet
Gian Domenico Cancianini, Italian, Latin-language poet
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Faizi, Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
Johann Fischart born this year or 1546, German
Martin Moller, German poet and mystic
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician and astronomer
Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Richard Stanyhurst", Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian
Maciej Stryjkowski, Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
Roemer Visscher, Dutch merchant and writer, especially of epigrams and emblemata

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 18 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, poet and writer
January 19 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,, English poet and aristocrat, executed for treason
February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, Italian noblewoman and poet
October or November - John Redford, English composer, poet and playwright
Also:
* Lazare de Baïf, French poet, diplomat and humanist
* Meerabai मीराबाई, alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Indian, Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India