1554 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1554.

Events

• January 25 - Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
• Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature.

New books

• Matteo Bandello - Novelle, Prima Parte
• Charles Estienne - Praedium Rusticum
• Johannes Magnus - Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus ("History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes")
• Tepetlaoztoc Codex
• Título de Totonicapán (anonymous K’iche’ language document; approximate date)
• Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous)
• Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum

Poetry

• Anacreontea (Greek poems written in the 1st century BC to the 6th century AD, published for the first time by Henri Estienne)

Births

• 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 year of birth – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer (died 1618)

Deaths

• 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)