1565 in literature
# 1565 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1565.

## Events

* March 1 – Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.
* October – Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
* unknown dates
   * Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
   * Approximate time of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.

## New books

### Prose

* Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Hecatommithi
* Pierre Pithou – Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II
* Camillo Porzio – La Congiura dei baroni
* John Stow – Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
* Bernardino Telesio – De natura juxta propria principia (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)
* Joseph Karo – Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law)

### Drama

* Jean-Antoine de Baïf – L'Eunuque

### Picture

* Richard Breton – Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel)

### Poetry

* See 1565 in poetry

## Births

* September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (died 1635)
* Unknown dates
   * Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian (died 1633)
   * Francis Meres, English author and cleric (died 1647)
   * Anthony Shirley, English traveler and writer (died 1635)

## Deaths

* March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
* March – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1510)
* May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian (born 1483)
* August 27 – William Rastell, English printer (born 1508)
* October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504)
* October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479)
* December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516)
* Unknown dates
   * Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art (born 1534)
   * Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian (born c. 1502)
