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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1559.

Events

April – The Act of Uniformity sets the order of prayer in accordance with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.^[1]
Before August – Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.^[2]

Jacques Amyot (translator)
- Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
- Vies des hommes illustres, from Plutarch's Parallel Lives (begins)
Joachim du Bellay – Discours au roi
Realdo Colombo – De Re Anatomica
Jorge de Montemayor – Diana
Die Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries, first three volumes, publication continues up to 1574)

February 18 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614)^[3]
October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar (died 1651)^[4]
December – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, dramatist and poet (died 1613)
unknown dates
- Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Spanish historian (died 1623)
- Christopher Holywood, Jesuit writer (died 1626)
- John Penry, Protestant pamphleteer and martyr (died 1593)

^ "Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559), 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2". Hanover Historical Texts Project. March 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ Paul F. Grendler (1 January 2006). Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-86078-989-5.
^ "Isaac Casaubon | French scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^ Classica Et Mediaevalia. Gyldendal. 2000. p. 254. ISBN 978-87-7289-662-5.
^ Paul Valkema Blouw (7 June 2013). Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. BRILL. p. 312. ISBN 90-04-25655-5.
^ S.E.L.A. Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies. 1997. p. 17.