1570 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1570. Events December (approximate date) – Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este. unknown date – The Académie de Poésie et de Musique is founded in France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville. New books Prose Roger Ascham – The Scholemaster (posthumous) William Baldwin – Beware the Cat (new edition) Thomas North – The Fables of Bidpai: The Morall Philosophie of Doni (translation of the Panchatantra from the Italian of Anton Francesco Doni) Abraham Ortelius – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the first modern atlas)