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Overview of the events of 1559 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.

## Events

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* April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.[1]
* Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[2]

## New books

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### Prose

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* Jacques Amyot (translator)
* Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
* Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
* Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
* Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
* Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
* Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)

### Drama

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* Jasper Heywood – Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas

### Poetry

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* See 1559 in poetry

## Births

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* February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)[3]
* October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)[4]
* December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
* unknown dates
* Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
* Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
* John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)

## Deaths

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* January – Steven Mierdman, printer (born c. 1510)[5]
* May 19 – Pierre Doré, theologian (born c. 1500)
* August 15 – Luigi Lippomano, hagiographer (born 1500)
* August 25 – Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete (born c. 1495)
* September 7 – Robert Estienne, printer (born 1503)
* Probable year of death – Sebastián Fox Morcillo, philosopher[6]

## References

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1. ^ "Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2". Hanover Historical Texts Project. March 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
2. ^ Paul F. Grendler (1 January 2006). Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7\. ISBN 978-0-86078-989-5.
3. ^ "Isaac Casaubon | French scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
4. ^ Classica Et Mediaevalia. Gyldendal. 2000. p. 254\. ISBN 978-87-7289-662-5.
5. ^ Paul Valkema Blouw (7 June 2013). Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. BRILL. p. 312\. ISBN 90-04-25655-5.
6. ^ S.E.L.A. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 1997. p. 17.