1558 in literature

Events from the year 1558 in literature.

Events

• November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
• unknown dates
• Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core.
• Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.

New books

Prose

• John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
• Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
• John Knox (published anonymously) – '
• Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
• Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
• Thomas Watson – '

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – '