1558 in literature

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. unknown dates 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. Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.

New books Prose John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton) John Knox (published anonymously) – Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau) Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis Thomas Watson –

Drama Jacques Grévin –

Poetry See 1558 in poetry

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

Deaths January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861. 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)

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