title: 1568 in literature
text: # 1568 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1568.
  
  ## Events
  
  * October – The Bishops' Bible (inscribed The Holie Bible) is published as a translation into English made under the authority of the Church of England.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki – De optimo senatore
  * Petar Hektorović – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Discourse on Fishing and Fishermen)
  * Hans Sachs and Jost Amman (illustrations) – Das Ständebuch (Book of Trades)
  * William Turner
     * Of Sage
     * A New Boke on the Natures and Properties of all Wines
  * Giorgio Vasari – Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; revised edition)
  * Christopher Watson (translator) – The hystories of the most famous and worthy chronographer Polybius
  
  ### Children
  
  * Niels Bredal – The Child's Mirror (in Danish)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Ulpian Fulwell – Like Will to Like
  * William Wager – The Longer Thou Livest, The More Foole Thou Art
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * François d'Amboise – Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency
  * See also 1568 in poetry
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 20 – Daniel Cramer, German Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
  * February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist (died 1625)
  * March 30 – Henry Wotton, English diplomat and author (died 1639)
  * July 7 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theater owner (died 1619)
  * September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet (died 1639)
  * Unknown date – Richard Baker, English chronicler (died 1645)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 7 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian (born 1529)
  * September 14 – Jan van Casembroot, Flemish humanist poet (executed, born c. 1525)
  * December 23 – Roger Ascham, English didact (born c. 1515)
  * Unknown dates
     * Antoine Héroet, French poet
     * Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician, naturalist, and medical writer (born 1501/2)
     * Dirk Philips, Frisian Anabaptist theologian (born 1504)
  