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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.{{citation |last=Cochrane |first=Arthur |title=Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PdOggp1rN4C |accessdate=5 February 2013 |year=2003 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |location=Louisville |isbn=978-0-664-22694-7 |chapter=The Scottish Confesion of Faith}}
  • unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.{{cite book|author=Daniel Fulco|title=Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=in0JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|date=31 March 2016|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-30805-3|pages=39}}

New books

=Prose=

=Drama=

  • Jacques Grévin – Jules César
  • Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance){{cite web |first=Alexandra |last=Shepard |title=Preston, Thomas (1537–1598) |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22730 |accessdate=2013-10-01 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22730}} {{ODNBsub}}

=Poetry=

Births

  • January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643){{cite book|author=Walter Farquhar Hook|title=An Ecclesiastical Biography: Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RTcLpxrnAMC&pg=PA25|year=1847|publisher=F. and J. Rivington|pages=25}}
  • 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)David M. Bergeron, "Munday, Anthony (bap. 1560, d. 1633)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19531, accessed 14 August 2013]

Deaths

  • January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522){{cite book|author=Malcolm Smith|title=Joachim Du Bellay's Veiled Victim: With an Edition of the Xenia, Seu Illustrium Quorundam Nominum Allusiones|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nu9qb-_ZEKYC&pg=PA50|year=1974|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-03901-7|pages=50}}
  • April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
  • April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497){{cite book|author1=John L. Flood|author2=David J. Shaw|title=Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560): Hellenist and Physician in Germany and Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0wIy91GTjwC&pg=PA148|year=1997|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-00207-3|pages=148}}
  • 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){{cite book|author1=Adam Puschman|author2=Georg Thym|author3=Johann Fischart|author4=Kaspar von Stieler|title=Adam Puschman: Gründlicher bericht des deutschen meistergesangs. Erste aufl. (1571)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxPYQPqhMQMC|year=1891|publisher=M. Niemeyer=}}
  • Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher

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