title: 1573 in literature
text: # 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.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### 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)
  