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1547 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1547. Events * July 20 – On the death of the Alsatian scholar Beatus Rhenanus, his personal collection of around 670 books is bequeathed to the Humanist Library of Sélestat, where it remains intact in the 21st century. *''unknown date'' – Japanese Buddhist poet and diplomat Sakugen Shūryō leads a mission sent by the Ashikaga shogunate to the court of the Jiajing Emperor in Beijing. New books Prose *'' Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to Be Read in Churches'', book 1 * Andrés de Olmos – '' Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana'' * Martynas Mažvydas – ''The Simple Words of Catechism'' (first printed book in Lithuanian) *Catherine Parr – '' The Lamentation of a Sinner'' * William Salesbury – ''A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe'' *"Lucas Shepeherd" – '' John Bon and Mast Parson'' * Gian Giorgio Trissino – ''Italia liberata dai Goti'' Drama *Lodovico Dolce – ''Didone'' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 20
Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. * 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae. * 911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres. * 1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy. *1225 – Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations. * 1398 – The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster. *1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1547 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published France * Joachim du Bellay, ''À la ville du Mans'' * Antoine Héroët, ''Opuscules d'amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poetes'' ("Booklets of Love by Heroet, La Borderie and other divine poets"), including Héroët's ''Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour''; published in Lyon, France * Marguerite de Navarre, ''Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses'', long devotional poemMagnusson, Magnus, general editor, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, * Maurice Scève, ''La Saulsaye, églogue de la vie solitaire'' ("The Willow Grove: Eclogue of the Solitary Life"), a pastoral poem consisting of a debate between two shepherds on the subject of the differences between town and country and on the courtFrance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo, ( la, Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance ( 15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy. Life Pietro Bembo was born on 20 May 1470 to an aristocratic Venetian family. His father Bernardo Bembo (1433–1519) was a diplomat and statesman and a cultured man who cared for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Stryjkowski
Maciej Stryjkowski (also referred to as Strykowski and Strycovius;Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. t. 6, 1997 – ) was a Polish historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of ''Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia'' (1582). The work is generally considered to be the first printed book on the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Biography Maciej Stryjkowski was born around 1547 in Stryków, a town in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. He graduated from a local school in the town of Brzeziny, after which he joined the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army. He served in a garrison in Vitebsk under Alexander Guagnini. He was a Pole, but spent most of his life in the Grand Duchy, initially as a soldier. Around 1573, at the age of roughly 25, he retired from active service and became a protégé of Merkelis Giedraitis, the bishop of Samogitia. Eventually, Stryjkowski became a Catholic priest and ended as a provost at the parish of Jurbarkas ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1622 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1622. Events * January 6 (probably) – The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's ''The Masque of Augurs'' designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones. * March 12 – Teresa of Ávila (died 1582), devotional writer, is canonized by Pope Gregory XV. *June – Lucas Holstenius arrives in Britain to gather material for his ''Geographi Minores''. *November 19 – English writer and politician Sir Percy Herbert, created a baronet three days earlier, marries Elizabeth Craven, daughter of William Craven, a former Lord Mayor of London. *''unknown dates'' **Shakespeare's drama '' Othello'' is first published in the first quarto edition by Thomas Walkley in London, posthumously and nearly twenty years after the probable date of its first performance. New editions of four other Shakespeare plays in quarto are also issued this year, publishers being presumab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Vetter
Conrad Vetter (1547 – October 11, 1622) was a German Jesuit preacher and polemical writer. Biography Conrad was born at Engen, Germany, Engen in Baden. He entered the priesthood and vigorously championed the Catholic cause in speech and writing. While prefect of music in the collegiate church for nobles at Hall, he became more thoroughly informed concerning the Society of Jesus. As all he learned of it agreed with his desires, he asked to be received into the Society, and in 1576 entered the novitiate at Munich. After completing his studies he was made academic preacher at Munich, on account of his unusual gift for Public speaking, oratory. He subsequently preached for several years at Ratisbon, where many Lutherans were converted to the Catholic Church by his sermons. At the same time Vetter developed an extraordinary activity as a writer. He died at Munich on 11 October 1622. Writings It is stated that his writings, large and small, number nearly one hundred; they were c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1610 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1610. Events * June 5 – The masque ''Tethys' Festival'' by Samuel Daniel is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. *September 7 – Lope de Vega buys a house in Madrid. *December 12 – Sir Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with it into his new Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. *''unknown dates'' **The Douay–Rheims Bible (''The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English''), a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, is published under the Catholic Church. **At the Dominican Order's printing press at Abucay Church in the Philippines, Tomas Pinpin prints Father Francisco Blancas de San Jose's ''Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala'' and his assistant Diego Talaghay prints Pinpin's own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristóbal Mosquera De Figueroa
Cristóbal Mosquera de Figueroa (1547–1610) was a Spanish poet and writer. He was corregidor of Utrera, El Puerto de Santa María EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ... and Écija. Spanish male writers 1547 births 1610 deaths {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...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] |
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel ''Don Quixote'', a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature. Much of his life was spent in poverty and obscurity, which led to many of his early works being lost. Despite this, his influence and literary contribution are reflected by the fact that Spanish is often referred to as "the language of Cervantes". In 1569, Cervantes was forced to leave Spain and move to Rome, where he worked in the household of a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal. In 1570, he enlisted in a Spanish Marine Infantry, Spanish Navy infantry regiment, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. He served as a soldier until 1575, when he was captur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 29
Events Pre-1600 *61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. * 1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner. * 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy. *1267 – The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III. * 1364 – During the Hundred Years' War, Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession. *1567 – During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade. *1578 – Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards. 1601–1900 * 1714 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1590 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1590. Events *January – The Children of Paul's perform at the English Court twice in the first week; one of the plays act may be John Lyly's '' Midas''. Later this year they are banned from performing over of the involvement of Lily, their chief script-writer, in the Marprelate controversy. *''unknown date'' – The Teatro all'antica at Sabbioneta (Italy), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed. New books * Robert Greene **''Greene's Mourning Garment'' **''Never Too Late'' * Thomas Lodge – ''Rosalynde'' * Thomas Nashe – ''An Almond for a Parrat'' New drama *Anonymous (approximate date) **'' Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester'' **''King Leir'' **''Mucedorus'' * Robert Greene **''The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon'' (approximate date) **''The History of Orlando Furioso'' **''The Scottish History of James the Fourth'' (approximate date) **with Thomas Lodge – ''A Looking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
