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.

Prose

 * Edmund Bonner – 
 * Gjon Buzuku – Meshari (first book published in the Albanian language).
 * John Fisher (posthumously) – Treatyse concernynge the Fruytfull Sayings of Davyd
 * Fracastoro – Naugerius
 * Iacob Heraclid – De Marini quod Terovanum vocant atque Hedini expugnatione
 * Alonso de Molina – Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
 * Olaus Magnus – Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
 * Jacques Peletier du Mans – L'Art poétique (The Art of Poetry)
 * Nicholas Ridley – A Brief Declaration of the Lorde's Supper
 * William Turner – A New Book of Spiritual Physick
 * Georg Wickram – Das Rollwagenbuchlein

Drama

 * Étienne Jodelle – Didon se sacrifiant

Poetry

 * Joachim du Bellay – Les Regrets

Births

 * June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian theologian and music writer (died 1627)
 * December 27 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (died 1621)
 * Unknown dates
 * Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (died 1626)
 * Richard Carew, English translator and antiquary (died 1620)
 * John Doddridge, English antiquary, lawyer and writer (died 1628)
 * Moderata Fonte, Venetian writer and poet (died 1592)
 * François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator (died 1628)
 * Thomas Watson, English poet writing in English and Latin (died 1592)

Deaths

 * February 9 – Christian Egenolff, German printer and publisher (born 1502)
 * April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English Tudor historian (born c. 1470)
 * July 2 – Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator (born c. 1475)
 * October 9 – Justus Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493)
 * Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490)