1555 in literature

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 –
• Gjon Buzuku – Meshari.
• John Fisher – 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
• 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
• December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian
• Unknown dates
• *Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop
• *Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary
• *John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer
• *Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet
• *François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator
• *Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin

  Deaths

• February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher
• April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian
• July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator
• October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere
• Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator