Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino ("The [Golden] Ass")

• Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems,^[1] including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions
• Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" (first printed edition) published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius^[2]
• Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe
• John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem^[1] about tavern life; Great Britain^[3]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet
• Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
• Approximate date
  • Robert Crowley (died 1588), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547), English aristocrat and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• August – Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
• Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
• Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
• Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
• Approximate date – Fausto Andrelino (born c. 1462), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature