1559 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum,. Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s.
Works published
- Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France
- Antonio Minturno, De poeta, Italian criticism
- Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, Portuguese
- Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France
- Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A. Wechel
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- December - Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet, playwright and chronicler, brother of poet Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola
- George Chapman, English dramatist, translator, and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter
- Yang Shen, Chinese poet
- Wen Zhengming, Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher