1565 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1565.

Events

• March 1 – Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October – Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• unknown dates
  • Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Approximate time of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.

New books

Prose

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Hecatommithi
• Pierre Pithou – Template:Lang
• Camillo Porzio – La Congiura dei baroni
• John Stow – Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
• Bernardino Telesio – De natura juxta propria principia (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)
• Joseph Karo – Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law)

Drama

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf – L'Eunuque

Picture

• Richard Breton – Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel)<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>

Poetry

• See 1565 in poetry

Births

• September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (died 1635)
• Unknown dates
  • Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian (died 1633)
  • Francis Meres, English author and cleric (died 1647)
  • Anthony Shirley, English traveler and writer (died 1635)

Deaths

• March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
• March – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1510)
• May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian (born 1483)
• August 27 – William Rastell, English printer (born 1508)
• October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504)
• October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479)
• December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516)
• Unknown dates
  • Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art (born 1534)
  • Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian (born c. 1502)