title: 1558 in literature
text: # 1558 in literature
  
  Events from the year 1558 in literature.
  
  ## Events
  
  * November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
  * unknown dates
     * Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core.
     * Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
  * Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
  * John Knox (published anonymously) – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
  * Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
  * Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
  * Thomas Watson – Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes Church
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * See 1558 in poetry
  
  ## Births
  
  * July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
  * November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)
  * Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)
  * May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
  * August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
  * September 5 – Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
  * October 14 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)
  