1555 in literature
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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.[1]
- John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
- The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550â1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.[2]
- The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.[3]
New books
Prose
- Edmund Bonner â Homelies sette forth by Eddmune Byshop of London
- Gjon Buzuku â Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).[4]
- John Fisher (posthumously) â Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd[5]
- Fracastoro â Naugerius
- Iacob Heraclid â De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
- Alonso de Molina â Aquà comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
- Olaus Magnus â Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
- Jacques Peletier du Mans â L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
- Nicholas Ridley â A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
- William Turner â A New Book of Spiritual Physick
- Georg Wickram â Das Rollwagenbuchlein
Drama
- Ãtienne Jodelle â Didon se sacrifiant
Poetry
Births
- June 11 â Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
- December 27 â Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
- Unknown dates
- Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)[6]
- 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)[7]
- Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)
Deaths
- February 9 â Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
- April 18 â Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)[8]
- July 2 â Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
- October 9 â Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
- Unknown date â Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)