1558 in literature
Events from the year 1558 in literature.
Events
- November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
- unknown dates
- *Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core.
- *Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.
New books
Prose
- John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
- Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone
- John Knox –
- Marguerite de Navarre – Heptaméron
- Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
- Thomas Watson – ''''
Drama
- Jacques Grévin – ''La Trésorière''
Poetry
- ''See 1558 in poetry''
Births
- July 11 – Robert Greene, English writer
- November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist
- Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer