1559 in literature
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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.[1]
- Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[2]
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
- 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)[3]
- October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)[4]
- 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)[5]
- 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[6]
References
- ^ "Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2". Hanover Historical Texts Project. March 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-86078-989-5.
- ^ "Isaac Casaubon | French scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-87-7289-662-5.
- ISBN 90-04-25655-5.
- ^ S.E.L.A. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 1997. p. 17.