1557 in poetry

Events

• Joachim du Bellay returns to France from Rome, where he had accompanied his cousin, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, on a visit that began in 1553.

  Works published

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• John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held it for two days before the earl of Westmoreland took it
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, translated from Virgil's Aeneid, Books 2 and 4
• Thomas Tusser,, describing the farmer's year, month by month
• Richard Tottel, editor,, better known as Tottel's Miscellany, including the first publication of original poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt

  Other

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Ercole, Italy
• Olivier de Magny, Les Souspirs d'Olivier de Magny, France

  Births

• Jean de Sponde, French poet, writer, translator and humanist

  Deaths

• Gutierre de Cetina died about this year, Spanish
• Cristovao Falcao died about this year, Portuguese
• Hayâlî Ottoman
• Jean Salmon Macrin died, French, Latin-language poet