1555 in literature

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.<ref>*Template:ODNBweb. Template:DNBfirst</ref>
  • 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.<ref>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.</ref>
  • The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Prose

• Edmund Bonner – Template:Proper name
• Gjon Buzuku – Template:Lang (first book published in the Albanian language).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• John Fisher (posthumously) – Template:Lang<ref name="History Today" >Eliot Wilson: "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018).</ref>
• Fracastoro – Naugerius
• Iacob Heraclid – Template:Lang
• Alonso de Molina – Template:Lang
• Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
• Jacques Peletier du Mans – Template: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 – Template:Lang

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)
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  • Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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)