1565 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1565.
Events
- Approximate date of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.
- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
- Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
- Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.
New books
- 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 (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)
New drama
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf - L'Eunuque
Poetry
- See 1565 in poetry
Births
- September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (died 1635)
- Unknown dates
- Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian (died 1633)
- Francis Meres, English author and cleric (died 1647)
- Anthony Shirley, English traveller and writer (died 1635)
Deaths
- March – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1510)
- March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
- May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian (born 1483)
- August 27 – William Rastell, English printer (born 1508)
- October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504)
- October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479)
- December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516)
- Unknown dates
- Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art (born 1534)
- Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian (born c. 1502)