Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version (see also 1532), Italy
• Robert Fabyan, Chronicle, London: Richard Pynson, publisher; Great Britain^[1]
• Baptista Mantuanus, Italian poet writing in Latin published in France:
  • Agellaria^[2]
  • De sacris diebus, 12 books, explaining the various saints' days of the church calendar, published in Lyon^[2]
• Garcia de Resende, editor, Cancioneiro Geral ("General Songbook"), anthology, Portugal^[3]

• March 26 – Konrad Gesner (died 1565), Swiss, German-language naturalist, bibliographer and poet
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius (died 1571), German poet, historian and archaeologist
• unknown - Ou Daren (died 1596 in poetry), Ming dynasty poet and scholar.

• March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (born 1447), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet
• Ugolino Verino (born 1438), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature

• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature