1559 in poetry

Events

• The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum,. Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s.

  Works published

• Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France
• Antonio Minturno, De poeta, Italian criticism
• Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, Portuguese
• Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France
• Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A. Wechel

  Births

• December - Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet, playwright and chronicler, brother of poet Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola
• George Chapman, English dramatist, translator, and poet

  Deaths

• Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter
• Yang Shen, Chinese poet
• Wen Zhengming, Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher