1573 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1573.
Events
New books
Drama
- Anonymous – New Custom
- Jean de La Taille – La Famine, ou les Gabéonites
- George Gascoigne
- *Jocasta
- *Supposes
- *The Montague Masque
- Torquato Tasso – ''Aminta''
Poetry
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Œuvres en rime
- George Gascoigne – A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy...
- ''See also 1573 in poetry''
Births
- November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian
- December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist
- Unknown dates
- *Severin Binius, German historian
- *Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet
- Approximate year of birth – Samuel Rowlands, English prose and verse pamphleteer
Deaths
- January 1 – Johann Pfeffinger, German Protestant theologian
- February – William Lauder, Scottish poet
- May 14 – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer
- July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet
- October 24 – François Baudouin, French controversialist and historian
- November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian
- December – Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet
- December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet
- Late – Reginald Wolfe, English printer
- Unknown dates
- *Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer
- *Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist