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1539 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1539. Events *April – Printing of the Great Bible (''The Byble in Englyshe'') is completed; it is distributed to churches in England. Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible – unacknowledged as the Tyndale version is officially deemed heretical. *''Unknown dates'' **Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first place in England to be used regularly as a public theatre. **Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of King Francis I of France. This ''Epistre tres utile'' (very useful letter) calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France. **The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City. The first known book from it, ''Manual de Adultos'', appears in 1540. **Teseo Ambrogio's ''Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas'', published in Pavia, introduces several Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bible
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorised edition of the Bible in English, authorised by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the Bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it." The Great Bible includes much from the ''Tyndale Bible'', with the objectionable features revised. As the ''Tyndale Bible'' was incomplete, Coverdale translated the remaining books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha from the Latin Vulgate and German translations, rather than working from the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts. Although called the Great Bible because of its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1597 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1597. Events *February – Pembroke's Men contract with Francis Langley to play the next year at his new Swan Theatre in London. *By March – ''Romeo and Juliet'' becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be published as a "bad quarto". *March 17 – After the death of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham on March 5, his place as Lord Chamberlain of England is taken by George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, son of a previous Lord Chamberlain. Lord Hunsdon reverses Cobham's policy of hostility toward the actors in English Renaissance theatre and returns to his father's policy of general tolerance and patronage. The playing company under his patronage, which includes William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage, becomes the Lord Chamberlain's Men. *April 23 – The feast for the Order of the Garter at the Palace of Whitehall in London is a likely occasion for the first performance of Shakespeare's comedy ''The Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier De Serres
Olivier de Serres (; 1539–1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose '' Théâtre d'Agriculture'' (1600) was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century. Biography Serres was born in 1539 at Villeneuve-de-Berg, Ardèche. His brother, Jean de Serres, was a well-known French humanist and translated the complete works of Plato. His book was notable for recommending winegrowers to plant 5 to 6 varieties in their vineyards to balance the risk of a crop failing, an early advocacy of crop rotation. It also recommended ''métayage'' (sharecropping) so that cash tenants would take all the risks and thus demand lower rent, as hired labour is expensive to manage. Sharecroppers administer themselves and risks are divided with the landlord. According to him, only large landowners should take the risk of hiring labourers and running the estate themselves.The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France, Philip Hoffman, The Journal of Economic Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1602 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1602. Events *February 2 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men perform ''Twelfth Night'' at the Middle Temple in London. *May – Henry Wotton returns to Florence having disclosed a plot to murder King James VI of Scotland. *May 4 – Richard Hakluyt is installed as prebendary of Westminster Abbey. *November 8 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford opens to scholars. *November 22 – Samuel Rowley and William Bird(e) (or Borne) are paid by the Admiral's Men for additions to Christopher Marlowe's play '' Doctor Faustus''. New books Prose *Tommaso Campanella – ''The City of the Sun'' (a philosophical work, one of the most important utopias) *Thomas Campion – ''Observations in the Art of English Poetry'' * Richard Carew – ''A Survey of Cornwall'' * Cipriano de Valera (rev.) – 'Reina-Valera' (Spanish translation of the Bible) *Sir Hugh Plat – '' Delightes for Ladies'' (book of recipes an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulus Melissus
Paulus Melissus (also: ''Paul Melissus,'' ''Paul Schede'', or ''Paulus Schedius Melissus''; 20 December 1539 – 3 February 1602) was a humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator and composer. Life Melissus was born in Mellrichstadt. He studied and attended school in Zwickau from 1557 to 1559, and studied philology in Erfurt and Jena. From 1560 to 1564 he lived in Vienna, where in 1561 he became poet laureate. He stayed in Prague, Wittenberg and Leipzig, and was called to the court of the bishop of Würzburg and went on a campaign to Hungary with him. He was an ambassador in the service of Emperor Maximilian II and Rudolf II, and traveled to France, Switzerland, Italy, and England and was ultimately director of the Electoral library (the Bibliotheca Palatina) in Heidelberg, where he died. Melissus translated works of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze for the Huguenot church services in rhyme using the Psalms in German. He was the first to use the sonnet and the ''terza rima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 20
Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian. * 1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade. *1334 – Cardinal Jacques Fournier, a Cistercian monk, is elected Pope Benedict XII. 1601–1900 * 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. * 1808 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins. * 1832 – HMS ''Clio'' under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands. * 1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States with the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. 1901–present * 1915 – World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli. * 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded. * 1924 &ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Paolo Sozzini
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus ( pl, Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian theologian and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church during the 16th and 17th centuries and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period. His 1570 treatise ''De auctoritate scripturae sacrae'' (published in English in 1732, as ''A demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion, from the Latin of Socinius'') was highly influential on Remonstrant thinkers such as Simon Episcopius, who drew on Sozzini's arguments for viewing the scriptures as historical texts. Life Sozzini was born in Siena, the only son of Alessandro Sozzini and Agnese Petrucci, daughter of Borghese Petrucci b.1490, and granddaughter of Pandolfo Petrucci. His father Alessandro Sozzini, oldest of eleven brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 5
Events Pre-1600 *63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. * 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville. * 1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many. * 1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother, Berenguer Ramon II. * 1408 – Seeking to resubjugate Muscovy, Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself. * 1456 – The first of two earthquakes measuring 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people. * 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the ''Summis desiderantes affectibus'', a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany. * 1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree orderi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1616 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1616. Events *January 1 – King James I of England attends the masque ''The Golden Age Restored'', a satire by Ben Jonson on a fallen court favorite, the Earl of Somerset. The King asks for a repeat performance on January 4. *February 1 – King James I of England grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him ''de facto'' poet laureate. *March 5 – Nicolaus Copernicus' ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' (1543) is placed on the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' by the Roman Catholic Church. *March 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned for treason and has been composing ''The Historie of the World'', in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition in search of El Dorado in South America. *April 22 (Gregorian calendar) – Miguel de Cervantes dies (three days after completing ''Los Trabajos de Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestizo
(; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed Ethnic groups in Europe, European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though their ancestors are not. The term was used as an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race that evolved during the Spanish Empire. Although, broadly speaking, means someone of mixed European/Indigenous heritage, the term did not have a fixed meaning in the colonial period. It was a formal label for individuals in official documents, such as censuses, parish registers, Inquisition trials, and others. Priests and royal officials might have classified persons as mestizos, but individuals also used the term in self-identification. The noun , derived from the adjective , is a term for racial mixing that did not come into usage until the twentieth century; it was not a colonial-era term.Rappap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garcilaso De La Vega (chronicler)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 – 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, where he lived and worked the rest of his life. The natural son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman born in the early years of the conquest, he is known primarily for his chronicles of Inca history, culture, and society. His work was widely read in Europe, influential and well received. It was the first literature by an author born in the Americas to enter the western canon. After his father's death in 1559, Vega moved to Spain in 1561, seeking official acknowledgement as his father's son. His paternal uncle became a protector, and he lived in Spain for the rest of his life, where he wrote his histories of the Inca culture and Spanish conquest, as well as an account of De Soto's expedition in Florida. Early life Born Gómez Suárez de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 12
Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York. * 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland. * 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day. 1601–1900 *1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships. *1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain. *1807 – The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli. *1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
