1555 in literature
# 1555 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.

## Events

* unknown dates
   * The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
   * Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.
   * John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
   * The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.
   * The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.

## New books

### Prose

* Edmund Bonner – Homelies sette forth by Eddmune Byshop of London
* Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).
* John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd
* Fracastoro – Naugerius
* Iacob Heraclid – De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
* Alonso de Molina – Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
* Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
* Jacques Peletier du Mans – L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
* Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
* William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
* Georg Wickram – Das Rollwagenbuchlein

### Drama

* Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant

### Poetry

* Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets

## Births

* June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
* December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
* Unknown dates
   * Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)
   * Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary (died 1620)
   * John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer (died 1628)
   * Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet (died 1592)
   * François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator (died 1628)
   * Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)

## Deaths

* February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
* April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)
* July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
* October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
* Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)
