1558 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1558.

Events

• November 17 - Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
• Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up a court library in his Munich Residenz, predecessor of the Bavarian State Library.
• Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel.

New books

• John Dee - Propaedeumata Aphoristica
• Ser Giovanni Fiorentino - Il Pecorone
• John Knox - The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women (published anonymously)
• Marguerite de Navarre - Histoires des amans fortunez (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
• Giambattista della Porta - Magia Naturalis

New 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 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)

In literature

• October – The novel La Princesse de Clèves (1678) opens at this date.