1557 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1557. Events May 4 – The Stationers' Company in the City of London, a printers' guild, receives a Royal Charter. June 5 – The London publisher Richard Tottel produces Tottel's Miscellany (Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and others), the first printed anthology of English poetry, edited by himself and including first publication of original poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (beheaded 1547) and Sir Thomas Wyatt (died 1542) June 10 – The New Testament of the Geneva Bible, a Protestant Bible translation into English, supervised by William Whittingham and printed in Roman type, is published in Geneva. New books Prose Thomas North – The Diall of Princes (translation from French version of Antonio de Guevara's Reloj de Principes, chiefly from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations) Robert Recorde – The Whetstone of Witte Hans Staden – (True history and description of wild, ferocious man-eaters in the New World of America) , a version of The Three Princes of Serendip published by Michele Tramezzino, allegedly after an Italian translation by Cristoforo Armeno