1574 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1574.

Events

 * unknown dates
 * Exercicio quotidiano, a religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language, is created.
 * The Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov prints the second edition of his Apostolos and the first Azbuka (alphabet book) in Cyrillic script.

Prose

 * Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures
 * Matthias Flacius et al. – Magdeburg Centuries
 * Nicolás Monardes – Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
 * Elizabeth Tyrwhitt – Morning and Evening Prayers

Poetry

 * See 1574 in poetry

Births

 * September – Thomas Gataker, English theologian (died 1654)
 * September 18 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet (died 1640)
 * November 4 – Erycius Puteanus, Dutch philologist (died 1646)
 * Unknown dates
 * Richard Barnfield, English poet (died 1627)
 * Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian (died 1623)
 * John Day, English dramatist (died c. 1640)
 * Paul Laymann, Austrian moralist (died 1635)
 * Feng Menglong (馮夢龍), Chinese vernacular poet (died 1645)
 * William Percy, English poet and playwright (died 1648)

Deaths

 * January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese humanist philosopher (born 1502)
 * April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born 1500)
 * June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists (born 1511)
 * November 7 – Solomon Luria, Jewish legal author (born 1510)
 * November 28 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (born 1502)
 * December 10 – Ascanio Condivi, biographer of Michelangelo (born 1525)
 * Unknown dates
 * Gáspár Heltai (Kaspar Helth), Transylvanian writer in German (born c. 1490)
 * Paulus Manutius, Venetian printer (born 1512)
 * Antonio Minturno, Italian poet and critic (born 1500)
 * Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer (born 1511)
 * Ioannes Sommerus, Saxon theologian (born 1542)