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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.
Events
- April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.[1]
 - Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[2]
 
New books
Prose
- Jacques Amyot (translator)
- Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
 - Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
 
 - Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
 - Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
 - Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
 - Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)
 
Drama
- Jasper Heywood – Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas
 
Poetry
- See 1559 in poetry
 
Births
- February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)[3]
 - October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)[4]
 - December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
 - unknown dates
- Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
 - Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
 - John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)
 
 
Deaths
- January – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)[5]
 - May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian (born c. 1500)
 - August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer (born 1500)
 - August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete (born c. 1495)
 - September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer (born 1503)
 - Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher[6]
 
References
- ↑ "Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2". Hanover Historical Texts Project. March 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
 - ↑ Paul F. Grendler (1 January 2006). Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-86078-989-5.
 - ↑ "Isaac Casaubon | French scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
 - ↑ Classica Et Mediaevalia. Gyldendal. 2000. p. 254. ISBN 978-87-7289-662-5.
 - ↑ Paul Valkema Blouw (7 June 2013). Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. BRILL. p. 312. ISBN 90-04-25655-5.
 - ↑ S.E.L.A. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 1997. p. 17.
 
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