1574 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1574.
Events
- unknown dates
- *Exercicio quotidiano, a religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language, is created.
- *The Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov prints the second edition of his Apostolos and the first Azbuka in Cyrillic script.
Prose
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures
- Matthias Flacius et al. – Magdeburg Centuries
- Nicolás Monardes – Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
- Elizabeth Tyrwhitt – ''Morning and Evening Prayers''
Poetry
- ''See 1574 in poetry''
Births
- September – Thomas Gataker, English theologian
- September 18 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet
- November 4 – Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist
- Unknown dates
- *Richard Barnfield, English poet
- *Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian
- *John Day, English dramatist
- *Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist
- *Feng Menglong, Chinese vernacular poet
- *William Percy, English poet and playwright
Deaths
- January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher
- April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar
- June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists
- November 7 – Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author
- November 28 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian
- December 10 – Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo
- Unknown dates
- *Gáspár Heltai, Transylvanian writer in German
- *Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer
- *Antonio Minturno, Italian poet and critic
- *Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer
- *Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian