1559 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1559.
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Events
- Publication of the Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer.
- Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
New books
Prose
- Jacques Amyot (translator)
- Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
- Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
- Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
- Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
- Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
- Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)
Drama
- Jasper Heywood – Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas
Poetry
- See 1559 in poetry
Births
- February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)[1]
- October – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)
- December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
- Unknown dates
- Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
- Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
- John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)
Deaths
- May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian (born c. 1500)
- August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer (born 1500)
- August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete (born c. 1495)
- September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer (born 1503)
- Unknown date – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)
- Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher
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