1555 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.

Events

• unknown dates
  • The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
  • Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.^[1]
  • John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
  • The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.^[2]
  • The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.^[3]

New books

Prose

• Edmund Bonner –
• Gjon Buzuku – Albanian: [[Meshari]] (first book published in the Albanian language).^[4]
• John Fisher (posthumously) – English, Middle (1100-1500);: Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd^[5]
• Fracastoro – Naugerius
• Iacob Heraclid – Latin: De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
• Alonso de Molina – Spanish; Castilian: [[Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana]]
• Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
• Jacques Peletier du Mans – French: L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
• Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
• William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
• Georg Wickram – German: Das Rollwagenbuchlein

Drama

• Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant

Poetry

• Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets

Births

• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
• December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
• Unknown dates
  • Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)^[6]
  • Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary (died 1620)
  • John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer (died 1628)
  • Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet (died 1592)
  • François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator (died 1628)^[7]
  • Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)

Deaths

• February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
• April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)^[8]
• July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
• October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
• Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)

Notes and References

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2. Nancy Canepa. "Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480–1558)", The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, 3 volumes, edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Press, 2008, pages 926–927.
3. Book: Léon Voet. Jenny Voet-Grisolle. The Plantin Press (1555-1589): A Bibliography of the Works Printed and Published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden. 1980. Van Hoeve. 978-90-222-0253-1.
4. Web site: Meshari . . 2010-05-14.
5. Eliot Wilson: "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018).
6. Book: Paul A. Welsby. Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626. 1958. S. P. C. K.. 7.
7. Book: John Reynell Morell. A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. 1874. T. J. Allman. 106.
8. Book: Catherine Atkinson. Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum. 2007. Mohr Siebeck. 978-3-16-149187-0. 86.