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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.
- Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.
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 – '
Drama
- Jacques Grévin – '
Poetry
- See 1558 in poetry
Births
- July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
- November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)
- Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)
Deaths
- January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)
- 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)