1556 in poetry
# 1556 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Works published

### France

* Rémy Belleau:
   * Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French
   * Petites Inventions
* Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)

### Great Britain

* Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works
* Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work
* John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood, verse allegory the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
* April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
* August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
* November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
* date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
* date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
* October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
* November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
* Also:
   * Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
   * Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
   * Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
   * Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English
   * John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet
