1565 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1565.

Events

 * March 1 – Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.
 * October – Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
 * unknown dates
 * Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
 * Approximate time of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript.

Prose

 * Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Hecatommithi
 * Pierre Pithou – Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II
 * Camillo Porzio – La Congiura dei baroni
 * John Stow – Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
 * Bernardino Telesio – De natura juxta propria principia (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)
 * Joseph Karo – Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law)

Drama

 * Jean-Antoine de Baïf – L'Eunuque

Picture

 * Richard Breton – Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel) 

Poetry

 * See 1565 in poetry

Births

 * September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (died 1635)
 * Unknown dates
 * Gonzalo de Illescas, Spanish historian (died 1633)
 * Francis Meres, English author and cleric (died 1647)
 * Anthony Shirley, English traveler and writer (died 1635)

Deaths

 * March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
 * March – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1510)
 * May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian (born 1483)
 * August 27 – William Rastell, English printer (born 1508)
 * October 7 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504)
 * October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479)
 * December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516)
 * Unknown dates
 * Paolo Pino, Italian painter and writer on art (born 1534)
 * Benedetto Varchi, Italian poet and historian (born c. 1502)