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.

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 – 

Drama

 * Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière

Poetry

 * See 1558 in poetry

Births

 * July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
 * November 3 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (died 1594)
 * Probable year – Thomas Lodge, English writer (died 1625)

Deaths

 * January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German writer (born 1503)
 * May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1481)
 * August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1499)
 * September 5 – Robert Broke, English legal writer (birth date unknown)
 * October 14 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)