1560 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.
Events
- August 27 â The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith.[1]
- unknown date â Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.[2]
New books
Prose
- Geneva Bible (first full edition)
- Giachem Bifrun (translator) â L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
- Thomas Churchyard â The Contention bettwyxte Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
- Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.
Drama
- Jacques Grévin â Jules César
- Thomas Preston â Cambises (possible date of first performance)[3]
Poetry
- See 1560 in poetry
Births
- January 5 â John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643)[4]
- Baptised August 4 â Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
- October 10 â Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
- December 3 â Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
- Unknown dates
- Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
- Ãlvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
- Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
- probable
- Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
- Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633)[5]
Deaths
- January 1 â Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522)[6]
- April 7 â Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
- April 19 â Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497)[7]
- July 9 â John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
- September 30 â Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
- November 15 â Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
- December 21 â Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520)[8]
- Unknown date â Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher