1554 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.
Events
- January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
- unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe
New books
Prose
- Matteo Bandello
- *Novelle
- *Prima Parte
- Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne
- Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum
- Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus
- Tepetlaoztoc Codex
- Lazarillo de Tormes
- Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum
- Approximate year:
- ''Título de Totonicapán''
Poetry
- ''Anacreontea''
Births
- March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator
- October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet
- November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian
- November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet
- Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet
- probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer
Deaths
- January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer
- April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet
- June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer
- September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator