1555 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1555. Events unknown dates The Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome. Roger Taverner is elected to the Parliament of England. John Hooker becomes Chamberlain of Exeter. The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553, appears for the first time in a single volume. The French humanist Christophe Plantin establishes the Plantin Press in Antwerp. New books Prose Edmund Bonner – Gjon Buzuku – (first book published in the Albanian language). John Fisher (posthumously) – Fracastoro – Naugerius Iacob Heraclid – Alonso de Molina – Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus Jacques Peletier du Mans – (The Art of Poetry) Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick Georg Wickram –