1568 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1568.
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
- William Wager – ''The Longer Thou Livest, The More Foole Thou Art''
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