1570 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570.

Events

 * December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
 * unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville.

Prose

 * Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous)
 * William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition)
 * Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni)
 * Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)

Poetry

 * See 1570 in poetry

Births

 * October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (died 1637)
 * December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Netherlandish theologian (died 1648)
 * Unknown dates
 * Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (died 1638)
 * Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (died 1643)
 * Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1649)

Deaths

 * February 28 – Domingo de Santo Tomás, Spanish grammarian (born 1499)
 * March 25 – Johann Walter, German poet and composer (born 1496)
 * July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist, reformer and pamphleteer (born c. 1500)
 * October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)
 * November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born c. 1539)