1558 in literature explained

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.^[1]
  • Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.^[2]

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 – ^[3]

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – French: La Trésorière^[4]

Poetry

• See 1558 in poetry

Births

• July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
• November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)^[5]
• Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)

Deaths

• January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)^[6]
• 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)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Franz Georg Kaltwasser. Retrospective cataloguing in Europe: 15th to 19th century printed materials. Proceedings of the International Conference, Munich 28th–30th November 1990. 24 July 2017. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 978-3-11-132599-6. 22.
2. Book: Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620. 23 August 2018. BRILL. 978-90-04-37112-5. 247.
3. Eliot . Wilson . The Last Death of Catholic England . History Today . 68 . 1 . January 2018.
4. Book: Jacques Grévin . Pinvert, Lucien . Paris . Thorin et Fils . 1899 .
5. Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems, Oxford, 1967.
6. Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
7. Book: Bloomsbury Publishing. Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600. 16 October 2013. A&C Black. 978-1-4725-2137-8. 228.