This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1558.
November 17 – Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up a court library in his Munich Residenz, predecessor of the Bavarian State Library.
Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel.
John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica
Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone
John Knox – The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women (published anonymously)
Marguerite de Navarre – Histoires des amans fortunez (edited by Pierre Boaistuau)
Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis
Jacques Grévin – La Trésorière
See 1558 in poetry
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)
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 – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born c. 1491)
October – The novel La Princesse de Clèves (1678) opens at this date.
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