1559 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.

Events

• April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.^[1]
• Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.^[2]

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)^[3]
• October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)^[4]
• 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

• January – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)^[5]
• 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)
• Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2 . Hanover Historical Texts Project . 23 December 2018 . March 2001.
2. Book: Paul F. Grendler. Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. 1 January 2006. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-86078-989-5. 7.
3. Web site: Isaac Casaubon French scholar . Encyclopedia Britannica . 8 April 2019 . en.
4. Book: Classica Et Mediaevalia. 2000. Gyldendal. 978-87-7289-662-5. 254.
5. Book: Paul Valkema Blouw. Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. 7 June 2013. BRILL. 90-04-25655-5. 312.
6. Book: S.E.L.A.. 1997. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 17.