1570 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.
Events
- December – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
- unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.
New books
Prose
- Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster
- William Baldwin – Beware the Cat
- Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni
- Abraham Ortelius – ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum''
Poetry
- ''See 1570 in poetry''
Births
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian
- December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian
- Unknown dates
- *Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
- *Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet
- *Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer
Deaths
- February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian
- March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer
- July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer
- October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian
- November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist