1557 in literature
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.
- June 5 – The London publisher Richard Tottel produces Tottel's Miscellany, the first printed anthology of English poetry, edited by himself and including first publication of original poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt
- 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
- Robert Recorde – The Whetstone of Witte
- Hans Staden – Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen
- 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
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Ercole
- ''Tottel's Miscellany''
Births
- February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer and writer
- Unknown date – Jean de Sponde, Basque French poet
Deaths
- April 9 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar
- August 1 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer
- September 13 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman
- October 20 – Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet
- Unknown dates
- *Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian
- *Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator