1558 in literature
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Events from the year 1558 in literature.
Events
- November 17 â 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.[1]
- Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.[2]
New books
Prose
- John Dee â Propaedeumata Aphoristica
- Ser Giovanni Fiorentino â Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
- John Knox (published anonymously) â The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
- Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) â Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
- Giambattista della Porta â Magia Naturalis
- Thomas Watson â Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes Church[3]
Drama
- Jacques Grévin â La Trésorière[4]
Poetry
- See 1558 in poetry
Births
- July 11 (baptism) â Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
- November 3 â Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)[5]
- Probable year â Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)
Deaths
- January 28 â Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)[6]
- May 17 â Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
- August 11 â Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
- September 5 â Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
- October 14 â Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)[7]