1554 in literature

Overview of the events of 1554 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.

Events

January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.^[1]
unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature.

Matteo Bandello
- Novelle
- Prima Parte
Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne^[2]
Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum
Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes)
Tepetlaoztoc Codex
Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous)
Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum
Approximate year:
Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document)

Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne)

March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (died 1631)
October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet (died 1594)
November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian (died 1624)
November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (died 1586)
Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet (died 1642)
probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (died 1618)^[3]

January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer (born c. 1480)
April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (born 1523)
June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer (born c. 1491)
September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator (born 1497)

^ Lawrence, Rachel (January 2010). Alyse Dar. ed. Brazil (Seventh ed.). Apa Publications GmbH & Co. / Discovery Channel. pp. 183.
^ Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1872). Bernard Quaritch. Bernard Quaritch. p. 1503.
^ Steven P. Olson (2003). Sir Walter Raleigh: Explorer for the Court of Queen Elizabeth. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8239-3631-1.