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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1580.

Events

  • March – Thomas Legge's Latin play about Richard III of England, Richardus Tertius, the first known history play performed in England, is acted by students at St John's College, Cambridge.
  • July 12 – The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible translation into a Slavic language (Old Church Slavonic), is first printed at Ostroh in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Ukraine) by Ivan Fyodorov.

New books

  • Book of Concord
  • Jean Bodin – De la demonomanie des sorciers
  • Veronica Franco – Lettere familiari a diversi
  • Robert Greene – Mamillia
  • John Lyly – Euphues and his England
  • Michel de Montaigne – Essais
  • Anthony Munday – Zelauto

New drama

  • Robert Garnier – Antigone
  • Thomas Legge – Richardus Tertius

Poetry

  • Luís Vaz de Camões – Luís Vaz de Camões
  • Jan Kochanowski – Laments (Treny)

Births

  • March 5 – Christophe Justel, French scholar (died 1649)
  • April 18 (date of baptism) – Thomas Middleton, English poet and dramatist (died 1627)
  • June 9 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655)
  • September 17 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645)
  • October 12 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish poet (died 1633)
  • unknown dates
  • Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, French theologian (died 1646)
  • Manuel de Almeida, Spanish historian (died 1646)
  • Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (died 1664)
  • Philipp Clüver, German historian (died 1623)
  • Ling Mengchu (凌濛初), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1644)
  • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet (died 1621)
  • Francisco de Lugo, Spanish theologian (died 1652)

Deaths

  • May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English poet (born 1524)
  • June 10 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c.1524)
  • June 22 – Hernando de Acuña, Spanish translator (born c.1520)
  • August 20 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born 1506)
  • October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (born 1516)
  • November 3 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512)
  • unknown dates
  • Sebastián de Horozco, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1510)
  • Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c.1532)
  • probable – Raphael Holinshed, chronicler

References