1573 in literature

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.

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)