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1558 literature
July 2020
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.
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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.Franz Georg Kaltwasser Retrospective cataloguing in Europe: 15th to 19th century printed materials. Proceedings of the International Conference, Munich 28th–30th November 1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=qZlsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 24 July 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 978-3-11-132599-6 22
Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620 https://books.google.com/books?id=uJJyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 23 August 2018 BRILL 978-90-04-37112-5 247
New books
Prose
John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
John Knox (published anonymously) – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
Thomas Watson – Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes ChurchEliot Wilson The Last Death of Catholic England History Today 68 1 January 2018
Drama
Jacques Grévin – fr La TrésorièreJacques Grévin Pinvert, Lucien Paris Thorin et Fils 1899 https://archive.org/details/jacquesgrvintud00pinvgoog
Poetry
See 1558 in poetry
Births
July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems, Oxford, 1967.
Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)
Deaths
January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
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)Bloomsbury Publishing Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600 https://books.google.com/books?id=9szUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 16 October 2013 A&C Black 978-1-4725-2137-8 228
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