1559 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.

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Events

• April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.[1]
• Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[2]

New books

Prose

• Jacques Amyot (translator)
  • Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
  • Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
• Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
• Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
• Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
• Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)

Drama

• Jasper Heywood – Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas

Poetry

• See 1559 in poetry

Births

• February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)[3]
• October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)[4]
• December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
• unknown dates
  • Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
  • Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
  • John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)

Deaths

• January – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)[5]
• May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian (born c. 1500)
• August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer (born 1500)
• August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete (born c. 1495)
• September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer (born 1503)
• Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher[6]

References

1. "Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2". Hanover Historical Texts Project. March 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
2. Paul F. Grendler (1 January 2006). Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-86078-989-5.
3. "Isaac Casaubon | French scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
4. Classica Et Mediaevalia. Gyldendal. 2000. p. 254. ISBN 978-87-7289-662-5.
5. Paul Valkema Blouw (7 June 2013). Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. BRILL. p. 312. ISBN 90-04-25655-5.
6. S.E.L.A. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 1997. p. 17.