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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.

Events

  • August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith.
  • unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

New books

Prose

  • Geneva Bible (first full edition)
  • Giachem Bifrun (translator) – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
  • Thomas Churchyard – The Contention ' Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
  • Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.

Drama

  • Jacques Grévin – Jules César
  • Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance)

Poetry

  • See 1560 in poetry

Births

  • January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643)
  • Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
  • October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
  • December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
  • Unknown dates
  • Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
  • Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
  • Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
  • probable
  • Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
  • Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633)

Deaths

  • January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522)
  • April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
  • April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497)
  • July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
  • September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
  • November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
  • December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520)
  • Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher

References