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1527 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Pietro Aretino, ''Sonetti Lussuriosi'' ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures"), to accompany an edition of Raimondi's erotic engravings, ''I Modi'', Italy * John Skelton, , publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want", England * Gian Travers, ''Chianzun dalla guerra dagl Chiaste da Müs'', Putèr variety of Romansh language, Switzerland * Marco Girolamo Vida, also known as "Hieronymus Vida", Italy: ** ''De arte poetica'' ("The Art of Poetry"), tract on poetic theory partly inspired by Horace ** ''Scacchia, Ludus'' ("The Game of Chess"), about the creation of chess as a way for the mythological Greek god Mercury to win over Caissa; involves a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods; a 658-line poem in Virgilian hexameters, translated into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (philologist)
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784. Early life William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. By the end of his life he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness, was fluent in a further eight, with a dictionary at hand, and had a fair c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1457 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events 1451: * August 1 – A manuscript of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' is sold in London 1452: * Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor Works published 1450: * Santillana, ''Bias contra Fortuna'', published about this year; SpainPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications * Vetteve, ''Guttilaya'', narrative poem by a Sinhalese monkKurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, 1454: * Padmanabhan, ''Kanhadade Prabandha'', Indian, Rajasthani-language 1456: * François Villon, ''Le Petit Testament'' Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: 1450: * August 18 – Marko Marulić (died 1524), Croatian poet, philosopher and Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šiško Menčetić
Šišmundo Menčetić ( it, Sigismondo Menze), known simply as Šiško Menčetić (; 1457–1527) was a poet from Ragusa, chiefly creating his opus in the 15th century. Biography Menčetić was born in 1458 in the city of Dubrovnik (today's Croatia), Republic of Ragusa, part of the aristocratic family of Menčetić, as the son of Šimun Menčetić and his wife, Veronika Đurđević. He spent his youth ribald and dissolute; his name is often mentioned in law documents of the Dubrovnik archive. He was charged in court due to incidents on city streets including the harassment of women. He served as an official in the Dubrovnik government in various positions; as a twenty-year-old he entered the Ragusan Small Council, and twice (in 1521 and 1524), he was the Duke of the Republic of Ragusa. Menčetić married in 1497 when he was 40. He died, with two of his sons, on June 25, 1527, in a major outbreak of the plague. Writings Influences Menčetić belongs to the first generation of Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1469 In Poetry
— François Villon, the "Ballade des Dams du Temps Jadis" in ''Le Grand Testament'', 1461 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *1462: 10 September – Robert Henryson in Scotland is enrolled as a teacher in the recently founded University of Glasgow. *1463: January – French poet François Villon is reprieved from hanging but never heard of again. Works published 1461: * François Villon, ''Le Grand Testament'', lyric poem; FranceKurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, consisting of 173 stanzas containing many ballads, or rondeaux, including "Ballade des dames du Temps Jadis"Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979 (see quotation, above) 1463: * Matteo Maria Boiardo, ''Carmina de Laudibus Estensium'', Italy 1468: * Jami, ''Haft Owrang'' ("Seven Thrones"), collection of seven idy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( , , ; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527), occasionally rendered in English as Nicholas Machiavel ( , ; see below), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise ''The Prince'' (''Il Principe''), written in about 1513 but not published until 1532. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence. He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. After his death Machiavelli's name came to evoke unscrupulous acts of the sort he advised most famously in his work, ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1470 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published 1472-1473: * Zainuddin, ''Rasul Bijay'' ("Victory of the Messenger"), fiction, Bengali 1475: * Angelo Polizano, ''Stanzas Begun for the Tournament of the Magnificent Giuliano de Medici'', publication year uncertain, published sometime from 1475–1478 ItalyKurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, 1476: * Benet Burgh, ''Parvus Cato; Magnus Cato'', collection of maxims written about 1440 and attributed to Dionysius Cato; the book was widely used as an elementary textbook; Latin and EnglishCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Jami, ''Nahafat al-Uns'' ("Breath of Familiarity"), biographies, Persian * John Lydgate, Great Britain, all posthumous editions: ** , published anonymously, written about 1400 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Fulvio
Andrea Fulvio (in his Latin publications and correspondence Andreas Fulvius; c. 1470–1527) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian active in Rome, who advised Raphael in the reconstructions of ancient Rome as settings for his frescoes. Fulvio was Raphael's companion and ''cicerone'' as they explored the ruins, Fulvio showing Raphael what was essential to be drawn and ex temporising on them. Fulvio published two volumes. One contained the first attempts at identifying famous faces of classical antiquity, Antiquity from numismatics, numismatic evidence, his richly illustrated ''Illustrium imagines'' of 1517, the portrait heads possibly by Giovanni Battista Palumba. The other was a guide to the city's antiquities, ''Antiquitates Urbis'', published in Sack of Rome (1527), the disastrous year 1527. For a more popular market, his ''Antiquitates Urbis'' were translated into Italian by Paolo Del Rosso and published at Venice in 1543 with the title '' Opera delle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigismund August Of Poland
Sigismund II Augustus ( pl, Zygmunt II August, lt, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty. Sigismund was the only son of Italian-born Bona Sforza and Sigismund the Old. From the beginning he was groomed and extensively educated as a successor. In 1529 he was crowned '' vivente rege'' while his father was still alive. Sigismund Augustus continued a tolerance policy towards minorities and maintained peaceful relations with neighbouring countries, with the exception of the Northern Seven Years' War which aimed to secure Baltic trade. Under his patronage, culture flourished in Poland; he was a collector of tapestries from the Low Countries and collected military memorabilia as well as swords, armours and jewellery. Sigismund Augustus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Poetry
Polish poetry has a centuries-old history, similar to the Polish literature. Prominent Polish poets include *Marcin Bielski (1495–1575); Polish historian, chronicler, writer and Renaissance satirical poet, first to use Polish, hence his designation as the father of Polish prose *Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569); first Polish author to write exclusively in Polish and described as a "father of Polish literature" *Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584); commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz * (1540–1599); royal secretary, poet and historian. He wrote in Polish and Latin. Son of Marcin Bielski. *Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855); regarded as one of the ''Three Bards'' of Polish Romantic literature and a "national poet" in Poland. *Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849); regarded as one of the ''Three Bards'' of Polish Romantic literature *Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859); regarded as one of the ''Three Bards'' of Polish Romantic literature * Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883); re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1603 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace, ending the Elizabethan era begun in 1558, and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland (where he has ruled since 1567), thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker collaborate on a pageant to welcome the new king. *November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle. He is found guilty but his life is spared by King James I at this time and he is returned to imprisonment in the Tower of London. Works Great Britain * Henry Chettle, ''Englandes Mourning Garment'', on the death of Queen Elizabeth * Juan de la Cueva, ''La Conquista de Betica'', (Spain) * Samuel Daniel, ''A Panegyrike Congratulatory Delivered to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... With a Defence of Ryme'', wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łukasz Górnicki
Łukasz Ogonczyk Coat of Arms, Ogończyk Górnicki (1527 in Oświęcim – 22 July 1603 in Lipniki, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Lipniki by Tykocin), was a Polish Renaissance, poet, humanist, political commentator as well as secretary and chancellor of king Sigismund Augustus of Poland. He wrote a number of works both poetic and political. Górnicki is most famous from his ''Dworzanin polski'', an adaptation of Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, Book of the Courtier (''Il cortegiano''). Life Youth and education Łukasz Górnicki was born in Oświęcim. He was the son of Marcin Góra and Anna Gąsiorkówna, poor townspeople from Bochnia. Górnicki began his education there. His early life was heavily influenced by his uncle Stanisław Gąsiorek, called Anserinu, a cleric at and director of the royal chapel on Wawel, as well as author of Polish patriotic verses and composer. Stanisław took an interest in his nephew and brought him to Kraków in 1538, seeing to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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