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1508 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508. Events *April 4 – John Lydgate's poem ''The Complaint of the Black Knight'' becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh. *''unknown date'' **The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance '' Amadis de Gaula'', as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. **Elia Levita completes writing the ''Bovo-Bukh'' in Yiddish. **Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. New books Prose *Desiderius Erasmus – '' Adagiorum chiliades'' (2nd ed., Venice) *Johannes Trithemius – ''De septem secundeis'' Drama *Ludovico Ariosto – '' La Cassaria'' *'' The World and the Child'' (possible date) Poetry * William Dunbar **''The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems'' **''The Goldyn Targe'' Births * April 3 – Jean Daurat (or Dorat), Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 4
Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico. * 801 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months. * 1268 – A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. * 1423 – Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416). * 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world. 1601–1900 * 1609 – Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia. * 1660 – Declaration of Breda b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work. Ariosto also coined the term "humanism" (in Italian, ''umanesimo'') for choosing to focus upon the strengths and potential of humanity, rather than only upon its role as subordinate to God. This led to Renaissance humanism. Birth and early life Ariosto was born in Reggio nell'Emilia, where his father Niccolò Ariosto was commander of the citadel. He was the oldest of 10 children and was seen as the successor to the patriarchal position of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1579 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1579. Events *January 28 – Burmese language poets Nawrahta Minsaw and Hsinbyushin Medaw become king and queen consort of Lanna respectively. *February – Torquato Tasso arrives in Ferrara. Shortly afterwards he is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna as insane; he remains here until 1586. *''unknown dates'' – Bible of Kralice begins publication. The first complete translation of the Bible into the Czech language (with notes) is prepared by the Unity of the Brethren and published at Kralice nad Oslavou in Bohemia. New books * John Frampton **''A discourse of the Navigation which the Portugales doe Make to the Realmes and Provinces of the East Partes of the Worlde, and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the Dominion of China'', first English work (translated from Bernardino de Escalante) devoted to China **''The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo'', first En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Piccolomini
Alessandro Piccolomini (13 June 1508 – 12 March 1579) was an Italian humanist, astronomer and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. His early works include ''Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne, o Raffaella'' (1539) and the comedies ''Amor costante'', and ''Alessandro'', (other titles are erroneously attributed to him) which were sponsored and produced by the Sienese Accademia degli Intronati, of which he was a member and an official. Much of his literary production consisted of translations from the Classics, of which Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses and book VI of the Aeneid are early examples. In 1540, while a student at the University of Padua, he helped found the Infiammati Academy, in which he gave lectures in philosophy. (He never taught at the University of Padua, as is often stated incorrectly.) His poetry, in which he followed the Petrarchan tradition, appeared first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 13
Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius, Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. *1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years). *1381 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace. *1514 – ''Henry Grace à Dieu'', at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated. *1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. 1601–1900 *1625 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury. *1740 – Province of Georgia, Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1560 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560. Events *August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith. *''unknown date'' – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. New books Prose *Geneva Bible (first full edition) *Giachem Bifrun (translator) – ''L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ'' (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s *Thomas Churchyard – ''The Contention'' ' ''Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame'' *''Scots Confession'', officially ''The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.'' Drama *Jacques Grévin – ''Jules César'' * Thomas Preston – ''Cambises'' (possible date of first performance) Poetry *''See 1560 in poetry'' Births *January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643) *Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612) *O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Sabinus
Georg Sabinus or Georg Schuler (23 April 1508 – 2 December 1560) was a German poet, diplomat and academic. Sabinus was born at Brandenburg an der Havel. He served as Professor of Poetry and Eloquence and first-ever rector of the Albertina (later the University of Königsberg). He died, aged 52, in Frankfurt (Oder). References * Petrus Albinus Petrus Albinus (German name: Peter von Weiße; 1543–1598) was a professor at Wittenberg in Germany and is known as the father of Saxon historiography. Life Petrus Albinus was born on 18 June 1543 in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains of central ...: ''Vita Georgii Sabini Brandenbvrgensis, ic., Poetæ laureati, et comitis Palatini in aula Lateranensi, Consiliarij Illustrissimorum Marchionum Brandenburgensium, tad diuersos proceres Legati, Professoris Eloquentiæ in Acad. Francofordiana ad Viadrum, Viri summi tclarissimi / Consignata potissimum ex ipsius scriptis a Petro Albino Niuemontio''. Wittenberg : Welack, 1588; erw. kommentie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 23
Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city. *711 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks. * 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. * 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England. * 1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia. * 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day. *1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil). *1516 – The Munich ''Reinheitsgebot'' (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1588 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1588. Events *January 1 – The Children of Paul's perform at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, probably acting John Lyly's ''Gallathea''. * February 2 – The Children of Paul's return to the English court, probably with Lyly's ''Endymion''. * February 28 – The gentlemen of Gray's Inn perform Thomas Hughes' play ''The Misfortunes of Arthur'' before Queen Elizabeth I of England, at Greenwich Palace. *May–December – Lope de Vega serves in the Spanish Armada, where he begins writing his epic poem ''La Hermosura de Angélica''. *November – Marprelate Controversy: The first tract by "Martin Marprelate", known as the ''Epistle'', appears at Molesey in England. *Venice's Biblioteca Marciana is completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi on the Piazza San Marco after more than a century of construction following a plan by the late Jacopo Sansovino. * John Dee finishes ''Libri mysteriorum I-XVIII'' (Spiritual D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Pléiade
La Pléiade () was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians (3rd century B.C.), corresponding to the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster. Major figures Notable members of "La Pléiade" consisted of the following people: * Pierre de Ronsard * Joachim du Bellay * Jean-Antoine de Baïf The core group of the French Renaissance "Pléiade"—Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf—were young French poets who met at the Collège de Coqueret, where they studied under the famous Hellenist and Latinist scholar Jean Dorat; they were generally called the "Brigade" at the time. Ronsard was regarded as the leader of the "Brigade", and remained the most popular and well-known poet of the group. The Pléiade's "manifesto" was penned by Joach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Daurat
Jean Daurat (Occitan: Joan Dorat; Latin: Auratus) (3 April 15081 November 1588) was a French poet, scholar and a member of a group known as '' The Pléiade''. Early life He was born Joan Dinemandy in Limoges and was a member of a noble family. After studying at the College of Limoges, he came to Paris to be presented to King Francis I of France, who made him tutor to his pages. He rapidly gained an immense reputation as a classical scholar. Career As a private tutor in the house of Lazare de Baif, he had Jean-Antoine de Baif for his pupil. His son, Louis, showed great precocity and at the age of ten, translated into French verse one of his father's Latin pieces. His poems were published with his father's. Daurat became director of the Collège de Coqueret, where he had among his pupils Antoine de Baif, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, and Pontus de Tyard. Joachim du Bellay was added by Ronsard to this group, and these five young poets, under the direction of Daurat, formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 3
Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. * 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. * 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. * 1559 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. 1601–1900 *1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. * 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. *1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. * 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. *1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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