title: 1565 in literature
text: # 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)
  