1559 in literature
# 1559 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.

## Events

* April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.
* Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

## New books

### Prose

* Jacques Amyot (translator)
   * Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
   * Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
* Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
* Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
* Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
* Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)

### Drama

* Jasper Heywood – Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas

### Poetry

* See 1559 in poetry

## Births

* February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)
* October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)
* December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
* unknown dates
   * Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
   * Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
   * John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)

## Deaths

* January – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)
* May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian (born c. 1500)
* August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer (born 1500)
* August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete (born c. 1495)
* September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer (born 1503)
* Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher
