1556 in literature

Events

• Unknown dates
  • The first printing press in India is introduced by Jesuits at Saint Paul's College, Goa.
  • The first written evidence of Yakshagana dance-drama is found on an inscription at the Lakshminarayana Temple, Hosaholalu in India.
  • Augustus, Elector of Saxony, establishes a royal state library in Dresden, predecessor of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.

New books

Prose

• Georg Bauer – De re metallica
• John Ponet – A Short Treasure of Politic Power

Poetry

• Pierre de Ronsard – Les Hymnes

Births

• March 7 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and philosopher (died 1621)
• April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville, French novelist and poet (died 1626)
• July 25 (baptised) – George Peele, English dramatist and poet (died 1596)
• August 10 – Philipp Nicolai, German poet and composer (died 1608)
• November 15 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French poet, cardinal and politician (died 1618)
• November 25 (baptised) – John Heminges, English actor and editor of the First Folio (died 1630)
• Unknown date – John Paul Nazarius, Italian theologian (died 1645)

Deaths

• April 26 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and teacher (born 1490)
• May 7 – Hieronymus Andreae, German printer and publisher (date of birth unknown)
• July 31 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish theologian, founder of the Jesuits (born 1491)
• October 21 – Pietro Aretino, Italian satirist (born 1492)
• October 31 – Johannes Sleidanus, Luxembourgeois historian (born 1506)
• November 14 – Giovanni della Casa, Florentine poet (born 1503)
• December 23 – Nicholas Udall, English dramatist (born 1504)
• Unknown dates
  • Fuzûlî, Ottoman poet and philosopher (born c.1483)
  • Oddur Gottskálksson, Icelandic translator (born 1514/1515)

References

References

1. Geoffrey C. Gunn. (2003). "First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500 to 1800". Rowman & Littlefield.
2. Martha Bush Ashton, Bruce Christie. (1977). "Yakshagana, a Dance Drama of India". Abhinav Publications.
3. Sir Frederic George Kenyon. (1930). "Libraries & Museums". E. Benn.
4. [[F. E. Halliday. Halliday, F. E.]] ''A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964.'' Baltimore, Penguin, 1964, p 213
5. Edward Hutton. (1923). "Pietro Aretino: The Scourge of Princes". Houghton Mifflin.
6. (2012). "Encyclopedia of Tudor England". ABC-CLIO.
7. Daisy L. Neijmann ''A History of Icelandic Literature'', p. 177.