title: 1575 in literature
text: # 1575 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1575.
  
  ## Events
  
  * July – Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
  * September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates.
  * unknown date
     * The first primer in the Estonian language is published.
     * First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor appears. It was originally written in 1335.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Anonymous – Arbatel de magia veterum
  * Ulpian Fulwell – The Flower of Fame (appendices in verse)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * George Gascoigne – The Glass of Government
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Veronica Franco – Terze rime
  
  ## Births
  
  * April – Jakob Böhme, German theologian (died 1624)
  * August 14 – Robert Hayman, Newfoundland poet (died 1624)
  * August 15 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist (died 1650)
  * Unknown dates
     * David Calderwood, Scottish historian (died 1650)
     * John Cotta, English physician and writer (died 1650)
     * Giovanni Stefano Menochio, Italian Jesuit scholar (died 1655)
     * Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (died 1626)
     * William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (died 1641)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian writing in Latin (born 1520)
  * June 9 – Paulus Aemilius, Hebrew bibliographer and publisher
  * July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (born c. 1505)
  * August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet (born 1503)
  * September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian (born 1504)
  * December 1 – Diogo de Paiva de Andrada, Portuguese theologian (born 1528)
  * December 18 – Marcin Bielski, Polish chronicler and poet (born 1495)
  * unknown dates
     * Sir William Stevenson, English poet (born 1530)
     * Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (born 1508)
  