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1564 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1564. Events *January – János Zsámboky (Johannes Sambucus) completes the preface to his ''Emblemata''. *February 6 – John Calvin, in the throes of his final illness, preaches his last sermon, in Geneva. *March 1 – Ivan Fyodorov (printer), Ivan Fyodorov with Pyotr Mstislavets prints the ''Acts and Epistles of the Apostles'' (an ''Apostolos (Orthodox liturgy), Apostolos''), the first printed work in the Russian language that can be dated, at the Moscow Print Yard. *''unknown dates'' **A revised edition of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'', authorised by the Council of Trent, is printed in Venice. **A chained library (''librije'') with access for the public is attached to the church of St. Walburgis in Zutphen, Netherlands. It will still be extant with its original fittings in the 21st century. New books Prose *John Dee (mathematician), John Dee – ''Monas Hieroglyphica'' *''Magdeburger Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Zsámboky
János Zsámboky or János Zsámboki or János Sámboki, (with his humanist name la, Johannes Sambucus, or Johannes Pannonicus Sambucus; 1 June 1531 – 13 June 1584) was a Hungarian humanist scholar: physician, philologist and historian. Sambucus was born in Trnava (Latin: Tyrnavia, Hungarian: Nagyszombat). He was the composer of the most renowned Emblemata book in Hungary: ''Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis'' (1564). Sambucus' emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch. He also wrote the ''Icones veterum aliquot ac recentium Medicorum Philosophorumque'' in 1574, published in Antwerp. He died, aged 53, in Vienna. Life and work Johannes Sambucus was born in the year 1531 in the town Trnava. While he was Hungarian politically (as a person born in the kingdom), it is possible his family also had Slovak roots. In Vienna in 1542 he graduated, and went on to study philology, ancient languages, law, history, and philosophy in Leipzig, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girolamo Maggi
Girolamo Maggi (1523, in Anghiari – 27 March 1572 in Constantinople), also known by his Latinization of names, Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planning, urban planner, philology, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and natural science, naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis Robortello. He authored several works, including a collection of poems on the Flanders, Flemish wars, (''Cinque primi canti della guerra di Fiandra'', 1551), one detailing military fortifications (''Della fortificatione delle città'', by his friend Giacomo Fusto Castriotto, but edited, annotated, and published posthumously by Maggi in 1564), and several on the subject of philosophy. Early life and education Maggi was born in Anghiari, Tuscany. Little is known about his youth. His year of birth is unknown; several authors have speculated, based on varying access to information. Maggi specifically mentioned how, in infancy, he wa ... [...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 Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 26
Events Pre-1600 * 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. *1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe. * 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. * 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). 1601–1900 *1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. * 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. *1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces *1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. * 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1659 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659. Events * January 27 – The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament. *August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy. *''unknown dates'' **Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic. **The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes his ''Píslarsaga'' (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings). New books Prose * Richard Baxter – ''The Holy Commonwealth'' *Méric Casaubon (ed.) – ''A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits'' *Thomas Hobbes – ' * Christiaan Huygens – ' * Ninon de l'Enclos – ' (The Flirt Avenged) * Richard Lovelace – ''Lucasta'' (posthumous) *William Prynne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (bishop)
Thomas Morton (20 March 156420 September 1659) was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses. Well-connected and in favour with James I, he was also a significant polemical writer against Roman Catholic views. He rose to become Bishop of Durham, but despite a record of sympathetic treatment of Puritans as a diocesan, and underlying Calvinist beliefs shown in the Gagg controversy, his royalism saw him descend into poverty under the Commonwealth. Life Morton was born in York on 20 March 1564, the sixth of the nineteen children of Richard Morton, mercer, of York, and alderman of the city, by his wife Elizabeth All Saints' Church, Pavement, York. He was brought up and grammar school educated in the city and nearby Halifax. In 1582, he became a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge from which he graduated with a BA in 1584 and an MA in 1590. William Whitaker picked him out for a Fellow of the college, and he proceeded to the degree of BD in 1598, and that of DD 'with g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 20
Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. * 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. * 1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599). 1601–1900 * 1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established. * 1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. * 1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings. *1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. * 1848 – German revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. * 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' is publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1617 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1617. Events *March 4 – Shrovetide riot of the London apprentices damages the Cockpit Theatre. Impresario Christopher Beeston rebuilds it, and christens it the Phoenix for its rebirth, perhaps to designs by Inigo Jones. *The collected works of John Calvin are published posthumously in Geneva. *Martin Opitz founds the Fruitbearing Society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) at Weimar. *Alchemist–hermeticist Robert Fludd begins the publication of his life's work, the ''Utriusque Cosmi...Historia'', which in future years proliferates through multiple published Volumes, Tractates, Sections, and Portions, only to remain incomplete at the time of Fludd's death two decades later. *Two pseudonymous publications in the Joseph Swetnam anti-feminist controversy appear in 1617: ''Esther Hath Hang'd Haman'' by "Esther Sowernam", and ''The Worming of a Mad Dog'' by "Constantia Munda". Only Rachel Speght publishes h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Fabricius
David Fabricius (9 March 1564 – 7 May 1617) was a German pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615). David Fabricius (Latinization of his proper name ''David Faber'', or ''David Goldschmidt''; possibly Hebrew) was born at Esens, studied at the University of Helmstedt starting in 1583 and served as pastor for small towns near his birthplace in Frisia (now northwest Germany and northeast Netherlands), at Resterhafe near Dornum in 1584 and at Osteel in 1603. As was common for Protestant ministers of the day, he dabbled in science: his particular interest was astronomy. Fabricius corresponded with astronomer Johannes Kepler. Scientific work Fabricius discovered the first known periodic variable star (as opposed to cataclysmic variables, such as novas and supernovas), Mira, in August 1596. At first he believed it to be "just" another nova, as the whole concept of a recurring variable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 9
Events Pre-1600 * 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. * 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. * 1226 – Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. * 1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa. *1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. 1601–1900 *1701 – Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation. * 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide. *1776 – '' The Wealth of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1593 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1593. Events *Ongoing – London theatres remain closed for almost the whole year as a result of the previous year's outbreak of bubonic plague. In the summer, Edward Alleyn and other actors make a provincial tour. Some performances take place in the winter, when plague tends to abate. Lord Strange's Men act three times in January a play called ''Titus'' – perhaps Shakespeare's ''Titus Andronicus''. *After April – William Shakespeare's '' Venus and Adonis'' probably becomes his first published work, printed from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times. *May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays. *May 12 – The English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". " Atheist" literature found in his home is claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
