1558 in literature

Events

• November 17 – 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.
  • Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.

New books

Prose

• John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
• Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
• John Knox (published anonymously) – **
• Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
• Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
• Thomas Watson – **

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière

Poetry

• See 1558 in poetry

Births

• July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
• November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)
• Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)

Deaths

• January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)
• May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
• August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
• September 5 – Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
• October 14 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)

References

References

1. Franz Georg Kaltwasser. (24 July 2017). "Retrospective cataloguing in Europe: 15th to 19th century printed materials. Proceedings of the International Conference, Munich 28th–30th November 1990". Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
2. (23 August 2018). "Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620". BRILL.
3. Wilson, Eliot. (January 2018). "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today.
4. Pinvert, Lucien. (1899). "Jacques Grévin". Thorin et Fils.
5. Arthur Freeman, ''Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems'', Oxford, 1967.
6. Classen, Johannes. ''Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter''. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
7. Bloomsbury Publishing. (16 October 2013). "Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600". A&C Black.