1560 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.

Events

 * August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith.
 * unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

Prose

 * Geneva Bible (first full edition)
 * Giachem Bifrun (translator) – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
 * Thomas Churchyard – The Contention bettwyxte Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
 * Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.

Drama

 * Jacques Grévin – Jules César
 * Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance)

Poetry

 * See 1560 in poetry

Births

 * January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643)
 * Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
 * October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
 * December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
 * Unknown dates
 * Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
 * Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
 * Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
 * probable
 * Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
 * Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522)
 * April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
 * April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497)
 * July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
 * September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
 * November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
 * December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520)
 * Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher