1553 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1553. Events Early – William Baldwin writes Beware the Cat (first published 1561), an early example of extended fiction (and specifically of horror fiction) in English and including an account of a printing house with which the author is familiar. unknown dates The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill appears in London as the first published complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into one of the English languages, based posthumously on Gavin Douglas's Eneados, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid from Latin into Middle Scots completed in 1513. Construction of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice is completed to the design of Jacopo Sansovino. New books Prose Francesco Patrizi – La Città felice (The Happy City)