This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1573.
Events Torquato Tasso's pastoral play Aminta is first performed by I Gelosi in palace gardens in Ferrara.
New books
Drama Anonymous – New Custom (published) Jean de La Taille – La Famine, ou les Gabéonites George Gascoigne (published in A Hundred Sundry Flowers) Jocasta Supposes The Montague Masque Torquato Tasso – Aminta
Poetry Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Œuvres en rime (Works in verse) George Gascoigne – A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (first collected edition of his verse and drama) See also 1573 in poetry
Births November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian (died 1640 in literature) December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (died 1613 in literature) Unknown dates Severin Binius, German historian (died 1641 in literature) Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet (died 1640 in literature) Approximate year of birth – Samuel Rowlands, English prose and verse pamphleteer (died 1630)
Deaths January 1 – Johann Pfeffinger, German Protestant theologian (born 1493) February – William Lauder, Scottish poet (born c. 1520) May 14 (burial) – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (born c.1506/7) July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532) October 24 – François Baudouin, French controversialist and historian (born 1520) November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494) December – Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet (born 1492) December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504) Late – Reginald Wolfe, English printer Unknown dates Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer (born c. 1506–1511) Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)
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