1566 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1566.

Events

September 2 â The stage collapses during a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Three deaths are caused. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat."^[1]
Ordonnance of Moulins in France prohibits writing, printing or selling of defamatory books and requires all books published to carry a seal of state approval.^[2]

Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle â first printing, at Frankfurt)^[3]
Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
FranÃ§ois de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) â Histoires tragiques begins publication)
Diego de Landa â RelaciÃ³n de las cosas de YucatÃ¡n^[4]
William Painter â Palace of Pleasure
The Flower Triod (Ð¢ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð´ Ð¦Ð²ÐµÑÐ½Ð¸)

George Gascoigne â Supposes (translation into English prose from Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn in London)
- (with Francis Kinwelmersh) â Jocasta (translation from Lodovico Dolce's Giocasta, a version of Euripides' The Phoenician Women, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn)
Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of Inner Temple in London)

January 6 â Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)^[5]
March â AntÃ³nio de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
July 13 â Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)^[6]
October 10 â Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
October 31 â Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
unknown date â Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)^[7]