1559 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.Events
Prose
- Jacques Amyot
- *Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
- *Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives
- Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
- Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
- Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
- ''Die Magdeburger Centurien
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
- October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar
- December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet
- unknown dates
- *Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian
- *Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer
- *John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr
Deaths
- January – Steven Mierdman, printer
- May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian
- August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer
- August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete
- September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer
- Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher