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1557 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1557.
Events
May 4 – The Stationers' Company in the City of London, a printers' guild, receives a Royal Charter.The Stationers' Company: A History, 1403–1959 https://archive.org/details/stationerscompan0000blag registration Cyprian Blagden London Allen & Unwin 1960
June 5 – The London publisher Richard Tottel produces Tottel's Miscellany (Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and others), the first printed anthology of English poetry, edited by himself and including first publication of original poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (beheaded 1547) and Sir Thomas Wyatt (died 1542)
June 10 – The New Testament of the Geneva Bible, a Protestant Bible translation into English, supervised by William Whittingham and printed in Roman type, is published in Geneva.
New books
Prose
Thomas North – The Diall of Princes (translation from French version of Antonio de Guevara's Reloj de Principes, chiefly from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations)
Robert Recorde – The Whetstone of Witte
Hans Staden – de Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen (True history and description of wild, ferocious man-eaters in the New World of America)
it Peregrinaggio di tre giovani figliuoli del re di Serendippo, a version of The Three Princes of Serendip published by Michele Tramezzino, allegedly after an Italian translation by Cristoforo Armeno
Drama
Lodovico Dolce – Medea
Poetry
1557 in poetry
Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Ercole
Tottel's Miscellany
Births
February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer and writer (died 1622)
Unknown date – Jean de Sponde, Basque French poet (died 1595)John Watkins An Universal Biographical and Historical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=OqkDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP832 1800 R. Phillips 832
Deaths
April 9 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (born c. 1510)Raisa Maria Toivo Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700 https://books.google.com/books?id=gePDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 20 October 2016 Brill 978-90-04-32887-7 228–
August 1 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (born 1490)
September 13 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (born 1514)
October 20 – Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (born 1490)
Unknown dates
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (born 1478 in literature)Jennifer Speake Jennifer Speake Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P https://books.google.com/books?id=j3w07y2oRu8C&pg=PA896 2003 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-424-5 896
Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator (birth year unknown)
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