1555 in literature

Events

• unknown dates
  • The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
  • Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.
  • John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
  • The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.
  • The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.

New books

Prose

• Edmund Bonner – **
• Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).
• John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd
• Fracastoro – Naugerius
• Iacob Heraclid – De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
• Alonso de Molina – Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
• Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
• Jacques Peletier du Mans – L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
• Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
• William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
• Georg Wickram – Das Rollwagenbuchlein

Drama

• Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant

Poetry

• Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets

Births

• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
• December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
• Unknown dates
  • Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)
  • 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)
  • Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)

Deaths

• February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
• April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)
• July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
• October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
• Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)

References

References

1. Taylor, Andrew W.. "Taverner, Richard (1505?–1575)}}. {{DNBfirst".
2. Nancy Canepa. "Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480–1558)", ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales'', 3 volumes, edited by [[Donald Haase]], [[Greenwood Press]], 2008, pages 926–927.
3. (1980). "The Plantin Press (1555-1589): A Bibliography of the Works Printed and Published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden". Van Hoeve.
4. "Meshari". [[National Library of Albania]].
5. Eliot Wilson: "The Last Death of Catholic England". ''History Today'', Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018).
6. Paul A. Welsby. (1958). "Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626". S. P. C. K..
7. John Reynell Morell. (1874). "A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times". T. J. Allman.
8. Catherine Atkinson. (2007). "Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum". Mohr Siebeck.