1550 in literature
# 1550 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.

## Events

* June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.
* July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.
* unknown dates
   * The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
   * Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
   * The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.

## New books

### Prose

* Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
* Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
* Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
* Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
* Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
* Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
* Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
* Primož Trubar
   * Catechismus
   * Abecedarium
* The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
* Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
* Rosary of the Philosophers

### Drama

* Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
* Hans Sachs
   * Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
   * Das Wildbad

### Poetry

* See 1550 in poetry

## Births

* December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
* unknown dates
   * Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
   * Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
* Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)

## Deaths

* February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
* July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)
* December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)
* unknown date
   * Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495)
   * William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)
