1559 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1559.

Events

Publication of the Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer.

Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Jacques Amyot (translator)

Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe

Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)

Joachim du Bellay - Discours au roi

Realdo Colombo - De Re Anatomica

See 1559 in poetry

February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)

October – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)

December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)

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