1565 in literature

Events

• March 1 – Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.
• October – Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
• unknown dates
• *Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
• *Approximate date of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.

  New books

Prose

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Hecatommithi
• Pierre Pithou – Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II
• Camillo Porzio – La Congiura dei baroni
• John Stow – Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
• Bernardino Telesio – De natura juxta propria principia

  Drama

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf – L'Eunuque

  Poetry

• See 1565 in poetry

  Births

• September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet
• Unknown dates
• *Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian
• *Francis Meres, English author and cleric
• *Anthony Shirley, English traveler and writer

  Deaths

• March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian
• March – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist
• May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian
• August 27 – William Rastell, English printer
• October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian
• October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile
• December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer
• Unknown dates
• *Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art
• *Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian