title: 1554 in literature
text: # 1554 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
  * unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Matteo Bandello
     * Novelle
     * Prima Parte
  * Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne
  * Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum
  * Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes)
  * Tepetlaoztoc Codex
  * Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous)
  * Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum
  * Approximate year:
  * Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document)
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne)
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (died 1631)
  * October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet (died 1594)
  * November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian (died 1624)
  * November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (died 1586)
  * Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet (died 1642)
  * probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (died 1618)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer (born c. 1480)
  * April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (born 1523)
  * June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer (born c. 1491)
  * September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator (born 1497)
  