1555 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.
Events
- unknown dates
- *The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
- *Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.
- *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.
- *The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.
New books
Prose
- Edmund Bonner –
- Gjon Buzuku – Meshari.
- John Fisher – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd
- 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
- 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
- Joachim du Bellay – ''Les Regrets''
Births
- June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer
- December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian
- Unknown dates
- *Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop
- *Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary
- *John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer
- *Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet
- *François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator
- *Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin
Deaths
- February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher
- April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian
- July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator
- October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere
- Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator