1554 in literature

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

## Events

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* 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

## New books

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### Prose

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* 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)

### Poetry

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

## Births

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* 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]

## Deaths

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Lawrence, Rachel (January 2010). Alyse Dar. ed. Brazil (Seventh ed.). Apa Publications GmbH & Co. / Discovery Channel. pp. 183.
2. ^ Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1872). Bernard Quaritch. Bernard Quaritch. p. 1503.
3. ^ 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.

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