1554 in literature
# 1554 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.

## Events

* January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
* unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature.

## New books

### Prose

* Matteo Bandello
   * Novelle
   * Prima Parte
* Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne
* Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum
* Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes)
* Tepetlaoztoc Codex
* Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous)
* Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum
* Approximate year:
* Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document)

### Poetry

* Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne)

## Births

* March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (died 1631)
* October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet (died 1594)
* November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian (died 1624)
* November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (died 1586)
* Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet (died 1642)
* probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (died 1618)

## Deaths

* January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer (born c. 1480)
* April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (born 1523)
* June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer (born c. 1491)
* September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator (born 1497)
