title: 1555 in literature
text: # 1555 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555.
  
  ## Events
  
  * unknown dates
     * The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.
     * Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England.
     * John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter.
     * The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume.
     * The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Edmund Bonner – Homelies sette forth by Eddmune Byshop of London
  * Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).
  * John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd
  * Fracastoro – Naugerius
  * Iacob Heraclid – De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
  * Alonso de Molina – Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
  * Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
  * Jacques Peletier du Mans – L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
  * Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
  * William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
  * Georg Wickram – Das Rollwagenbuchlein
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets
  
  ## Births
  
  * June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
  * December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
  * Unknown dates
     * Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)
     * Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary (died 1620)
     * John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer (died 1628)
     * Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet (died 1592)
     * François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator (died 1628)
     * Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
  * April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)
  * July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
  * October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
  * Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)
  