1558 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1558.
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Events
- November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
Uncertain dates
- Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library.
- 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) – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
- Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
- Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
- Thomas Watson – Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes Church[1]
Drama
- Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière[2]
Poetry
- See 1558 in poetry
Births
- July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
- November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)[3]
Probable year
- Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)
Deaths
- January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)[4]
- 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 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)
In literature
- October – The novel La Princesse de Clèves (1678) opens at this date.
References
- Wilson, Eliot (January 2018). "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today. 68 (1).
- Pinvert, Lucien (1899). Jacques Grévin. Paris: Thorin et Fils.
- Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems, Oxford, 1967.
- Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
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