title: 1556 in poetry
text: # 1556 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### France
  
  * Rémy Belleau:
     * Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French
     * Petites Inventions
  * Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)
  
  ### Great Britain
  
  * Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works
  * Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work
  * John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood, verse allegory the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
  * April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
  * August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
  * November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
  * date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
  * date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
  * October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
  * November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
  * Also:
     * Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
     * Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
     * Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
     * Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English
     * John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet
  