1558 in literature

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Events from the year 1558 in literature.

Events

November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
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- Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core.^[1]
- Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland.^[2]

John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton)
John Knox (published anonymously) – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women
Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
Thomas Watson – Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seven Sacramentes of Chrystes Church^[3]

^ Franz Georg Kaltwasser (24 July 2017). Retrospective cataloguing in Europe: 15th to 19th century printed materials. Proceedings of the International Conference, Munich 28th–30th November 1990. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-11-132599-6.
^ Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620. BRILL. 23 August 2018. p. 247. ISBN 978-90-04-37112-5.
^ Wilson, Eliot (January 2018). "The Last Death of Catholic England". History Today. 68 (1).
^ Pinvert, Lucien (1899). Jacques Grévin. Paris: Thorin et Fils.
^ Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems, Oxford, 1967.
^ Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524–1533 und 1537–1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
^ Bloomsbury Publishing (16 October 2013). Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600. A&C Black. p. 228. ISBN 978-1-4725-2137-8.