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1562 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562. Events *January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play ''Gorboduc'' before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse. *July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. New books Prose *''Magdeburger Centurien ( Magdeburg Centuries)'', volumes V and VI *Melchior Cano – ''De Locis theologicis'' (posthumously published) *Petrus Ramus – ''Grammaire française'' * Richard Smyth – ''De Missa Sacrificio'' Drama *Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – ''Gorboduc'' *''Jacke Jugeler'' Poetry * Arthur Brooke – '' The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet'' Births *January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621) *January 31 ''(bapt.)'' – Edward Blount, English publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 18
Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. * 1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York. *1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. * 1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami. 1601–1900 *1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama. *1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg. *1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". *1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Brooke (poet)
Arthur Brooke (died 19 March 1563) was an English poet who wrote and created various works including ''The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet'' (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his tragedy '' Romeo and Juliet'' (1597). Life The ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' suggests that Brooke may have been a son of Thomas Broke. Brooke was admitted to the Inner Temple, at the request of '' Gorboducs authors, Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. He may have written the masque that accompanied the play. On 19 March 1563, Brooke died in the shipwreck that also killed Sir Thomas Finch, bound for Le Havre, besieged in the French Wars of Religion. In 1567 George Turberville published a collection of poetry entitled, ''Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets''; it included ''An Epitaph on the Death of Master Arthur Brooke Drownde in Passing to New Haven''. ''The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet'' Though ostensibly a translation from the Italian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomé Leonardo De Argensola
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (August 1562February 4, 1631), Spanish poet and historian. Biography Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola was baptized at Barbastro on August 26, 1562. He studied at Huesca, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588. He was attached to the suite of the count de Lemos, viceroy of Naples, in 1610, and succeeded his brother Lupercio as historiographer of Aragon in 1613. He died at Saragossa on February 4, 1631. Works His principal prose works are the ''Conquista de las Islas Molucas'' (1609), and a supplement to Zurita's ''Anales de Aragón'', which was published in 1630. His poems (1634), like those of his elder brother, are admirably finished examples of pungent wit. His commentaries on contemporary events, and his ''Alteraciones populares'', dealing with a Saragossa rising in 1591, are lost. In the second book of the ''Conquista de las Islas Molucas,'' under the title 'Grandeza de la Isla de los Papuas', Bartolomé Leonard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1625 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1625. Events *January 1 – The King's Men act '' Henry IV, Part 1'' (described as ''The First Part of Sir John Falstaff '') at Whitehall Palace. * January 9 – Ben Jonson's masque ''The Fortunate Isles and Their Union'' (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era. *February 12 – John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 16. *March 27 – On the death of King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, patron of the King James Bible and essayist, he is succeeded by his son, the Prince of Wales. At the same time, theatres are closed because of an outbreak of plague and do not reopen until December. *April – Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of debts. * August 2–September 26 – Playwright Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the Council of War. On October 8 he joins the catastr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Gretser
Jacob Gretser (March 27, 1562 – January 29, 1625) was a celebrated German Jesuit writer. Life Gretser was born at Markdorf in the Diocese of Constance. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1578, and nine years later he defended publicly theses covering the whole field of theology. Ingolstadt was the principal scene of his work; here he taught philosophy for three years, dogmatic theology for fourteen and moral theology for seven years. He gave at least ten hours a day to his studies, which he protracted, at times, till late into the night, in order to devote part of the day to works of charity and zeal. He was recognized as one of the best controversialists of his time, and was highly esteemed by Pope Clement VIII, Emperor Ferdinand II, and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. Some of the greatest of his age, such as Cardinal Bellarmine and Markus Welser, corresponded with him and consulted him in their difficulties. He died at Ingolstadt. Works He edited or explained many work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 27
Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and Interdict (Catholic canon law), interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. *1329 – Pope John XXII issues his ''In Agro Dominico'' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. *1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1601–1900 *1625 – Charles I of England, Charles I becomes Monarchy of the United Kingdom, King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title English claims to the French throne, King of France. *1638 – The first of four destructive 1638 Calabrian earthquakes, Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Modified Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people. *1782 – The Second Rockingham m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1618 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1618. Events *January – Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a ''Ladies' Masque'' or ''Masque for Ladies'', intended for a Twelfth Night performance, but it is cancelled a few days before, either by King James or Queen Anne. *January 4 – Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England. *April 6 (Easter Monday) – The King's Men perform ''Twelfth Night'' at Court. *April 7 – The King's Men perform ''The Winter's Tale'' at Court. *July – Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland. *Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary ''salon''. New books Prose *William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley – ''Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life'' * Renold Elstracke – ''Braziliologia'' *Vicente Espinel – ''Relaciones de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Johnson (Brownist)
Francis Johnson (March 1562 – January 1618) was an English separatist, or Brownist, minister, pastor to an English exile congregation in the Netherlands. Early life Francis was the elder son of John Johnson, mayor of Richmond, North Riding of Yorkshire, born at Richmond and baptised there on 27 March 1562. George Johnson was his brother. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. 1581, M.A. 1585, and was elected fellow before Lady day 1584. He was a popular preacher in the university, and a follower of the independent presbyterianism advocated by Thomas Cartwright. On 6 January 1589 he expounded this view in a sermon at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, claiming that church government by elders is '' jure divino''. With Cuthbert Bainbrigg, also a fellow of Christ's, accused of factious preaching, he on 23 January came up before Thomas Nevile, the vice-chancellor. Refusing to answer on oath to the articles of accusation, Johnson and Bainbrigg were committed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1632 In Literature
Year 163 ( CLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Marcus Statius Priscus re-conquers Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births * Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) * Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) * Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus, Roman politician * Xun Yu, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 212) Deaths * Kong Zhou, father of Kong Rong (b. 103) * Marcus Annius Libo Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD. Life Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Blount
Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction with William and Isaac Jaggard, of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623. He was baptised in London on 31 January 1562; the Stationers' Register states that he was the son of Ralph Blount or Blunt, merchant tailor of London, and apprenticed himself in 1578 for ten years to the stationer William Ponsonby. Blount became a "freeman" (a full member) of the Stationers' Company on 25 June 1588. Among the most important of his publications are Giovanni Florio's Italian-English dictionary and his translation of Montaigne, plus Marlowe's ''Hero and Leander'' (1598), and the ''Six Court Comedies'' of John Lyly (1632). He himself translated ''Ars Aulica, or the Courtier's Arte'' (1607) from the Italian of Lorenzo Ducci, and ''Christian Policie'' (1632) from the Spanish of Juan de Santa María. Though best remembered for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 31
Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden. * 1504 – The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples. * 1578 – Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons. 1601–1900 * 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James. * 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1621 In Literature
Events from the year 1621 in literature. Events *January 27 – Sir Francis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban. *February 3 – John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton telling him the anonymous author of the tract ''Vox Populi'' has been revealed to be the radical preacher Thomas Scott. *May 3 – Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London after being convicted of receiving bribes, but pardoned by King James I later in the year. *August 26 – Barten Holyday's allegorical play ''Technogamia'', originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before James I at Woodstock Palace. He dislikes it, but is persuaded to stay to the end for the student actors' sakes. *September 24 – The earliest known copy of the ''Corante'', generally regarded as the first English newspaper, is published. *November 22 – The English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. *December 30 – The Spanish writer Francisco de Borja y Arag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
