1560 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.

Events

• August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Prose

• Geneva Bible (first full edition)
• Giachem Bifrun (translator) – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
• Thomas Churchyard – The Contention Template:Not a typo Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
• Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – Jules César
• Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Poetry

• See 1560 in poetry

Births

• January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
• October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
• December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
• Unknown dates
  • Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
  • Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
  • Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
• probable
  • Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
  • Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633)<ref>David M. Bergeron, "Munday, Anthony (bap. 1560, d. 1633)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2007 accessed 14 August 2013</ref>

Deaths

• January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
• April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
• September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
• November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
• December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher