1558 in literature

Events from the year 1558 in literature. Events November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth. unknown dates Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core. Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland. New books Prose John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton) John Knox (published anonymously) – Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau) Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis Thomas Watson –