1555 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.

Events

• unknown dates
• The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
• Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.
• John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
• The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.
• The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.

New books

Prose

• Edmund Bonner – '
• Gjon Buzuku – (first book published in the Albanian language).
• John Fisher (posthumously) –
• Fracastoro – Naugerius
• Iacob Heraclid –
• Alonso de Molina –
• Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
• Jacques Peletier du Mans – ' (The Art of Poetry)
• Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
• William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
• Georg Wickram –

Drama

• Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant

Poetry

• Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets

Births

• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
• December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
• Unknown dates
• Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)
• Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary (died 1620)
• John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer (died 1628)
• Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet (died 1592)
• François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator (died 1628)
• Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)

Deaths

• February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
• April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)
• July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
• October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
• Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)

References