1558 in literature
# 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 (The Simpleton)
* John Knox (published anonymously) – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
* Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
* Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
* Thomas Watson – Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes Church

### Drama

* Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière

### Poetry

* See 1558 in poetry

## Births

* July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
* November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)
* Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)

## Deaths

* January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)
* May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
* August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
* September 5 – Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
* October 14 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)
