title: 1550 in literature
text: # 1550 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.
  
  ## Events
  
  * June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.
  * July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.
  * unknown dates
     * The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
     * Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
     * The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
  * Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
  * Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
  * Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
  * Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
  * Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
  * Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
  * Primož Trubar
     * Catechismus
     * Abecedarium
  * The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
  * Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
  * Rosary of the Philosophers
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Thomas Naogeorgus – Agricultura sacra
  * Hans Sachs
     * Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies
     * Das Wildbad
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * See 1550 in poetry
  
  ## Births
  
  * December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
  * unknown dates
     * Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
     * Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
  * Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
  * July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)
  * December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)
  * unknown date
     * Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495)
     * William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)
  