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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.
  • 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.
  • The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.

New books

Prose

  • Edmund Bonner – '
  • Gjon Buzuku – (first book published in the Albanian language).
  • John Fisher (posthumously) –
  • Fracastoro – Naugerius
  • Iacob Heraclid –
  • Alonso de Molina –
  • Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
  • Jacques Peletier du Mans – ' (The Art of Poetry)
  • Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
  • William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
  • Georg Wickram –

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

References