1558 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English Events from the year 1558 in literature.

Events

• November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
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  • Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Prose

• John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
• Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
• John Knox (published anonymously) – Template:Proper name
• Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
• Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
• Thomas Watson – Template:Proper name<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – Template:Lang<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Poetry

• See 1558 in poetry

Births

• July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
• November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)<ref>Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems, Oxford, 1967.</ref>
• Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)

Deaths

• January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)<ref>Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861.</ref>
• May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
• August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
• September 5 – Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
• October 14 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>