1557 in literature
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Poetry
- Richard TottelRichard TottelRichard Tottel was an English publisher and influential member of the legal community. He ran his business from a shop was located at Temple Bar on Fleet Street in London...
(ed.) - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and otherTottel's MiscellanySonges and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.-Richard Tottel:...
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Births
- February 15 - Alfonso FontanelliAlfonso FontanelliAlfonso Fontanelli was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance...
, composer and writer (d. 1622) - date unknown - Jean de SpondeJean de SpondeJean de Sponde was a Baroque French poet.- Biography :Born at Mauléon, in what is now Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean de Sponde was raised in an austere Protestant family in the Basque region of France with close relations with the royal court of Navarre...
, poet (d. 1595)
Deaths
- April 9 - Mikael AgricolaMikael AgricolaMikael Agricola was a clergyman who became the de facto founder of written Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden . He is often called the "father of the Finnish written language". Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku in 1554, without papal approval...
, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510) - August 1 - Olaus MagnusOlaus MagnusOlaus Magnus was a Swedish ecclesiastic and writer, who did pioneering work for the interest of Nordic people. He was reported as born in October 1490 in Östergötland, and died on August 1, 1557. Magnus, Latin for the Swedish Stor “great”, is a Latin family name taken personally, and not a...
, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (b. 1490) - September 13 - John ChekeJohn ChekeSir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University....
, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514) - date unknown
- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (b. 1478)
- Nicolas de Herberay des EssartsNicolas de Herberay des EssartsNicolas de Herberay des Essarts , French translator, was born in Picardy.He served in the artillery, and at the expressed desire of Francis I he translated intoFrench the first eight books of Amadis de Gaula...
, French translator - Jean Salmon MacrinJean Salmon MacrinJean Salmon Macrin was a Neo-Latin poet of French nationality. His poetry sold massively well, and was thought of as quite influential during his lifetime; however his fame did not live on, and his poetry was never republished after the 16th century.Macrin was born in Loudun, and retained an...
, French poet (b. 1490)