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1559 in literature
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Events
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New books
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New drama
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Poetry
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Births
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Events
Publication of the Elizabethan version of the
Book of Common Prayer
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New books
Joachim du Bellay
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Discours au roi
Realdo Colombo
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De Re Anatomica
Jorge de Montemayor
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Diana
New drama
Poetry
See
1559 in poetry
Births
February 18 -
Isaac Casaubon
, philologist (d. 1614)
October -
Jacques Sirmond
, Jesuit scholar (d. 1651)
December -
Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
, dramatist and poet (d. 1613)
date unknown
Christopher Holywood
, Jesuit writer (d. 1626)
John Penry
, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (d. 1593)
Deaths
May 19 -
Pierre Doré
, theologian (b. c. 1500)
August 15 -
Luigi Lippomano
, hagiographer (b. 1500)
September 7 -
Robert Estienne
, printer (b. 1503)
date unknown
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Steven Mierdman
, printer (b. c. 1510)
probable
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Sebastián Fox Morcillo
, philosopher