1559 in poetry

Events

• The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ("Index of Prohibited Books"). Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s.

Works published

• Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France
• Antonio Minturno, De poeta ("On Poetry"), Italian criticism (generally thought to be a source of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesie 1595)
• Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, Portuguese
• Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France
• Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A. Wechel

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (died 1613), Spanish poet, playwright and chronicler, brother of poet Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola
• George Chapman (died 1634), English dramatist, translator, and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Nicolas Denisot (born 1515), French Renaissance poet and painter
• Yang Shen (born 1488), Chinese poet
• Wen Zhengming (born 1470), Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher

Notes

References

1. [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathCulture/Zodiac.html "Late Renaissance Thought and the New Universe / Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus"], at the "Mathematics Across the Curriculum at Dartmouth College" website, retrieved May 22, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103065705/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathCulture/Zodiac.html Archived] 2009-05-27.
2. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
3. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0
4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070321230052/http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/biolab.html "La vie de Louise Labé"], a chronology, and Web page titled [https://archive.today/20130106212008/http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/mnavar.html "Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)"], both in French, retrieved May 17, 2009.