1565 in literature

• 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. ==New books==

Prose • Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Hecatommithi • Pierre Pithou – '''' • 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) ==References==