1559 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ("Index of Prohibited Books"). Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s. Joachim du Bellay, Discours au Roi et Le Poète courtisan satire, France Antonio Minturno, De poeta ("On Poetry"), Italian criticism (generally thought to be a source of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesie 1595) Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana, pastoral romance, Portuguese Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron, poems and stories in the manner of Boccaccio's Decameron; posthumously published, France Olivier de Magny, Les Odes d'Olivier de Magny, de Cahors en Quercy, A.