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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.

Events

  • January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
  • unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons'

New books

Prose

  • Matteo Bandello
  • Novelle
  • Prima Parte
  • Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne
  • Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum
  • Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes)
  • Tepetlaoztoc Codex
  • Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous)
  • Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum
  • Approximate year:
  • Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document)

Poetry

  • Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne)

Births

  • March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (died 1631)
  • October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet (died 1594)
  • November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian (died 1624)
  • November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (died 1586)
  • Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet (died 1642)
  • probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (died 1618)

Deaths

  • January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer (born c. 1480)
  • April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (born 1523)
  • June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer (born c. 1491)
  • September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator (born 1497)

References