1566 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1566.

Events

September 2 - At a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England the stage collapses causing three deaths. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat".^[1]

Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle) - first printing (at Frankfurt)
Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) - Histoires tragiques (begins publication)
Diego de Landa - Relación de las cosas de Yucatán
William Painter - Palace of Pleasure
The Flower Triod (Триод Цветни)

Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple)

January 6 – Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)
March – António de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1520)
July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)
October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
Unknown date – Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)