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.^[1]

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)^[2]
• November 17 – Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)
• December – Donato Giannotti, Italian political writer, playwright and poet (born 1492)^[3]
• 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)