1555 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.

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Events

• unknown dates
  • The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
  • Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.[3]

New books

Prose

• Edmund Bonner – Homelies sette forth by Eddmune Byshop of London
• Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).[4]
• John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd[5]
• 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)[6]
  • 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)[7]
  • 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)[8]
• 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

1. • Taylor, Andrew W. "Taverner, Richard (1505?–1575)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27006. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Taverner, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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. Léon Voet; Jenny Voet-Grisolle (1980). The Plantin Press (1555-1589): A Bibliography of the Works Printed and Published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden. Van Hoeve. ISBN 978-90-222-0253-1.
4. "Meshari". National Library of Albania. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
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. p. 7.
7. John Reynell Morell (1874). A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. T. J. Allman. p. 106.
8. Catherine Atkinson (2007). Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum. Mohr Siebeck. p. 86. ISBN 978-3-16-149187-0.