1559 in poetry
# 1559 in poetry

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

## Events

* The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ("Index of Prohibited Books"). Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s.

## Works published

* Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France
* Antonio Minturno, De poeta ("On Poetry"), Italian criticism (generally thought to be a source of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesie 1595)
* Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, Portuguese
* Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France
* Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A. Wechel

## Births

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

* December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (died 1613), Spanish poet, playwright and chronicler, brother of poet Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola
* George Chapman (died 1634), English dramatist, translator, and poet

## Deaths

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

* Nicolas Denisot (born 1515), French Renaissance poet and painter
* Yang Shen (born 1488), Chinese poet
* Wen Zhengming (born 1470), Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher
