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1501 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1501. Events *Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's ''Le cose volgari'' and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device. *The first volume of '' Harmonice Musices Odhecaton'', the first collection of polyphonic music printed from movable type, is published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice. New books Prose *Desiderius Erasmus – ''Handbook of a Christian Knight'' (''Enchiridion militis Christiani'') * Margery Kempe – ''The Book of Margery Kempe'' (posthumous) * Nilakantha Somayaji – '' Tantrasamgraha'' Drama *Conradus Celtis – ''Ludus Diannae'' Poetry * Gavin Douglas – ''The Palice of Honour'' (approximate date of composition) * Marko Marulić – '' Judita'' (in Croatian) Births *February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist dramatist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margery Kempe
' Margery Kempe ( – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic, known for writing through dictation ''The Book of Margery Kempe'', a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book chronicles Kempe's domestic tribulations, her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and the Holy Land, as well as her mystical conversations with God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion, but has not been canonised as a Catholic saint. Early life and family She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around 1373 in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, England. Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament. The first record of her Brunham family is a mention of her grandfather, Ralph de Brunham, in 1320 in the ''Red Register'' of Lynn. By 1340 he had joined the Parliament of Lynn. Kempe's kinsman Robert Brunham, possibly her brother, became a Member of Parliament for Lynn in 1402 and 1417.Beal, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Scève
Maurice Scève (c. 1501–c. 1564), was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's ''Parfaicte Amye'' (1543) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works. Scève's chief works are ''Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu'' (1544); five anatomical blazons; the elegy ''Arion'' (1536) and the eclogue ''La Saulsaye'' (1547); and ''Microcosme'' (1562), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of man. Scève's epigrams, which have seen renewed critical interest since the late 19th century, were seen as difficult even in Scève's own day, although Scève was praised by Du Bellay, Ronsard, Pontus de Tyard and Des Autels for raising French poetry to new, higher aesthetic standards. Scève died sometime after 1560; the exact d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1544 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544. Events *Summer – The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect. In his absence, he is declared to be exiled by the Council of Brabant. *December 31 – Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England presents her stepmother, Catherine Parr, with a manuscript book entitled '' The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul''. *''unknown dates'' **The University of Paris prohibits the printing of any book not approved by the appropriate University officials. **The first (partial) Latin translation of Achilles Tatius' ''Leucippe and Clitophon'', made by Annibal della Croce (Crucejus), is published in Lyon. New books Prose *Cardinal John Fisher – ''Psalmi seu precationes'' (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventure Des Périers
Bonaventure ( ; it, Bonaventura ; la, Bonaventura de Balneoregio; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian Catholic Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" ( la, Doctor Seraphicus). His feast day is 15 July. Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure. Life He was born at Civita di Bagnoregio, not far from Viterbo, then part of the Papal States. Almost nothing is known of his childhood, other than the names of his parents, Giovanni di Fidanza and Maria di Ritella. Bonaventure reports that in his youth he was saved from an untimely death by the prayers of Francis of Assisi, which is the primary mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1554 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554. Events *January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. *''unknown date'' – Publication of Menno Simons' begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature. New books Prose *Matteo Bandello **''Novelle'' **''Prima Parte'' *Edmund Bonner – ''Profitable and Necessary Doctryne'' *Charles Estienne – ''Praedium Rusticum'' *Johannes Magnus – ''Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus'' (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes) *Tepetlaoztoc Codex *''Lazarillo de Tormes'' (anonymous) * Adrianus Turnebus's edition of '' Corpus Hermeticum'' *''Approximate year:'' *''Título de Totonicapán'' (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document) Poetry *''Anacreontea'' (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne) Births *March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixt Birck
Sixt (or Sixtus) Birck, as Xystus Betuleius (February 24, 1501 – June 19, 1554) was a German humanist of Augsburg, "a notable German scholar of the New Learning". At the end of his schooling in Augsburg the Protestant Reformation began. He continued his theological studies at Erfurt, Tübingen and Basel before returning to Augsburg as director (''Magister'') of the ''Gymnasium''. Works His theatrical output is in both German and Latin: in Basel he produced a wide variety of German theater pieces with a Reformation subtext; in Augsburg he wrote a notable series of pedological school dramas in Latin, designed for student presentation and intended to improve morality and Latin alike. Among his numerous plays in Latin are ''Susanna'', (Augsburg 1537; Zurich 1538), originally written in German but recast in Latin so as to make an essentially new play; ''De vera nobilitate'', a dramatized version of Buonaccorso da Montemagno's ''Dialogus de nobilitate'' concerning meritocracy and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 24
Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. * 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia. * 1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague. * 1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia. * 1582 – With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. * 1597 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia. 1601–1900 * 1607 – ''L'Orfeo'' by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance. *1711 – ''Rinald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judita
''Judita'' (Judith) is one of the most important Croatian literary works, an epic poem written by the "father of Croatian literature" Marko Marulić in 1501. Editions The work was finished on April 22, 1501, and was published three times during Marulić's lifetime. The first edition was arranged by Petar Srićić of Split and was printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto on August 13, 1521, that is, 20 years after it was written. One extant copy of the first edition is held in the Franciscan library in Dubrovnik, and the other in the Zadar family Paravia's library, which is today a part of the Scientific Library of Zadar. The second edition was edited by Zadar librarian Jerolim Mirković, published on May 30, 1522, and is illustrated with nine woodcuts depicting war scenes. The ninth woodcut is signed with the letter M, and it was therefore assumed that Marulić himself was the author of the woodcuts. One copy of Mirković's edition was given to the University Library by Iv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić Splićanin (), in Latin Marcus Marulus Spalatensis (18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist who coined the term "psychology". He is the national poet of Croatia. According to George J. Gutsche, Marulic's epic poem ''Judita'', "is the first long poem in Croatian", and, "gives Marulić a position in his own literature comparable to Dante in Italian literature." Furthermore, Marulić's Latin poetry is also of such high quality that his contemporaries dubbed him, "The Christian Virgil." Marulić has been called the "crown of the Croatian medieval age", the "father of the Croatian Renaissance",Marulianum ''Center for study of Marko Marulić and his literary activity.'' – Retrieved on 28 November 2008. and "The Father of Croatian literature." According to Maru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Douglas
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 – September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry. His main pioneering achievement was the ''Eneados'', a full and faithful vernacular translation of the ''Aeneid'' of Virgil into Scots, and the first successful example of its kind in any Anglic language. Other extant poetry of his includes ''Palice of Honour'', and possibly ''King Hart''. Life and career Early life Gavin (or Gawin, Gawane, Gawain) Douglas was born c. 1474–76, at Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, the third son of Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus by his second wife Elizabeth Boyd. A Vatican register records that Gavin Douglas was 13 in 1489, suggesting he was born in 1476. An application had been lodged to award Gavin the right to hold a Church canonry or prebend and enjoy its income. Another appeal to Rome concerning church appointments made in February 1495 states his age as 20. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conradus Celtis
Conrad Celtes (german: Konrad Celtes; la, Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a Germans, German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi. Celtis is considered by many to be the greatest of German humanists and thus dubbed "the Archhumanist" (''Erzhumanist''). He is also praised as "the greatest lyric genius and certainly the greatest organizer and popularizer of German Humanism". Life Born at Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt (present-day Lower Franconia) under his original name Konrad Bickel or Pyckell (modern spelling Pickel), Celtes left home to avoid being set to his father's trade of vintner, and pursued his studies at the University of Cologne (1477–1479; B.A., 1479) and at the University of Heidelberg (M.A., 1485). While at Heidelberg, he received patronage and instruction from Johann von Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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