1555 in literature
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.
Events
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- 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 – Template:Proper name
- Gjon Buzuku – Script error: No such module "Lang". (first book published in the Albanian language).[4]
- John Fisher (posthumously) – Script error: No such module "Lang".[5]
- Fracastoro – Naugerius
- Iacob Heraclid – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Alonso de Molina – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
- Jacques Peletier du Mans – Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Art of Poetry)
- Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
- William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
- Georg Wickram – Script error: No such module "Lang".
Drama
- Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant
Poetry
Births
- June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
- December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
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- 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
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ Eliot Wilson: "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018).
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