1565 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1565.

Events

• Approximate date of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.
• Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
• Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
• Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.

New books

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi - Hecatommithi
• Pierre Pithou - Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II
• Camillo Porzio - La Congiura dei baroni
• John Stow - Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
• Bernardino Telesio - De natura juxta propria principia (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)

New drama

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf - L'Eunuque

Poetry

• See 1565 in poetry

Births

• September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (died 1635)
• Unknown dates
  • Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian (died 1633)
  • Francis Meres, English author and cleric (died 1647)
  • Anthony Shirley, English traveller and writer (died 1635)

Deaths

• March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
• c. late March? – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1510)
• May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian (born 1483)
• August 27 – William Rastell, English printer (born 1508)
• October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504)
• October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479)
• December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516)
• Unknown dates
  • Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art (born 1534)
  • Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian (born c. 1502)