This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.
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Events
- unknown dates
- The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
- Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.[1]
- 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.[2]
- The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.[3]
New books
Prose
- Edmund Bonner – Homelies sette forth by Eddmune Byshop of London
- Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).[4]
- John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd[5]
- Fracastoro – Naugerius
- Iacob Heraclid – De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
- Alonso de Molina – Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
- Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
- Jacques Peletier du Mans – L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
- Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
- William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
- Georg Wickram – Das Rollwagenbuchlein
Drama
- Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant
Poetry
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)[6]
- 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)[7]
- 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)[8]
- 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
- ^ *Taylor, Andrew W. "Taverner, Richard (1505?–1575)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27006. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Nancy Canepa. "Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480–1558)", The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, 3 volumes, edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Press, 2008, pages 926–927.
- ^ Léon Voet; Jenny Voet-Grisolle (1980). The Plantin Press (1555-1589): A Bibliography of the Works Printed and Published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden. Van Hoeve. ISBN 978-90-222-0253-1.
- ^ "Meshari". National Library of Albania. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ Eliot Wilson: "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018).
- ^ Paul A. Welsby (1958). Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626. S. P. C. K. p. 7.
- ^ John Reynell Morell (1874). A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. T. J. Allman. p. 106.
- ^ Catherine Atkinson (2007). Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum. Mohr Siebeck. p. 86. ISBN 978-3-16-149187-0.
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