1562 in literature
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Events
Maya codices
Poetry
- The narrative poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet ( The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet ) by Arthur Brooke appears. It is a good thirty years later, William Shakespeare inspire his famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
Drama
Science and Religion
- Volumes V and VI of the Magdeburg Centuries, a church history from the perspective of the Reformation, appear.
- Petrus Ramus published the French grammar Gramere.
Born
- January 20: Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet and librettist († 1621)
- MARCH 27: Jacob Gretser, German classical scholar, historian, playwright and polemicist of the Counter-Reformation († 1625)
- APRIL 21: Valerius Herberger, Lutheran theologian, poet and writer in Poland ( † 1627 )
- NOVEMBER 25: Lope de Vega, Spanish poet († 1635)