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1517 In Literature
Events from the year 1517 in literature. Events *August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing ''The Psalter'', a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language. *''unknown dates'' **John of Hauville's ''Architrenius'' (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris. **Niccolò Machiavelli writes ''L'asino (The oldenAss)'' and (at about this date) the comedy ''Andria'', adapted from Terence. New books Prose *Martin Luther – ''Ninety-five Theses'' (in Latin: ''Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum'') Drama * Gil Vicente – '' A Trilogia das Barcas''; part 1, ''Auto da Barca do Inferno'' Poetry *Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – ''Opus Maccaronicum'', including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters) *John Skelton – ''The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng'' Births *June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585) *Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 6
Events Pre-1600 *1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. * 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. 1601–1900 *1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. *1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix. * 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. *1806 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire. *1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. * 1824 – Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín. * 1825 – The Bolivian Declaration of Inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente (; c. 1465c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama. Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen Dowager Leonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write his first theatrical work. He may also have been identical to an accomplished goldsmith of the same name at the court of Évora; the goldsmith is mentioned in royal documents from 1509 to 1517 and worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), Order of the Garter, KG, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person executed at the instance of King Henry VIII. He was a first cousin of the king's wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. His name is usually associated in literature with that of the poet Thomas Wyatt (poet), Sir Thomas Wyatt. Owing largely to the powerful position of his father, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Surrey took a prominent part in the court life of the time, and served as a soldier both in France and Scotland. He was a man of reckless temper, which involved him in many quarrels, and finally brought upon him the wrath of the ageing and embittered Henry VIII. He was arrested, tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Origins He was born in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife Elizab ... [...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] |
Robert Crowley (printer)
Robert Crowley (Robertus Croleus, Roberto Croleo, Robart Crowleye, Robarte Crole or Crule, c. 1517 – 18 June 1588), was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more reformed Protestantism than the king and the Church of England sanctioned. Under Edward VI, he joined a London network of evangelical stationers to argue for reforms, sharing a vision of his contemporaries Hugh Latimer, Thomas Lever, Thomas Beccon and others of England as a reformed Christian commonwealth. He attacked as inhibiting reform what he saw as corruption and uncharitable self-interest among the clergy and wealthy. Meanwhile, Crowley took part in making the first printed editions of ''Piers Plowman'', the first translation of the Gospels into Welsh, and the first complete metrical psalter in English, which was also the first to include harmonised music. Towards the end of Edward's reign and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1582 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1582. Events * February – ''Meleager'', a Latin play on the mythological figure of Meleager by "Gulielmus Gagerus" (William Gager), is performed by members of Christ Church, Oxford. *November 29 – Marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway at Temple Grafton in England. *Publication in England of the first part of Richard Mulcaster's textbook on the teaching of English, the ''" in regularized spelling. *Earliest reference to the publishing of private newspapers in Beijing (China). New books Prose *Robert Bellarmine – '' Disputationes'' *George Buchanan – ''Rerum Scoticarum Historia'' *Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx – '' Balet comique de la Royne'' *"Douay–Rheims Bible", New Testament * Richard Hakluyt – ''Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America'' * John Leland – ' (posthumous translation) * Anthony Munday – ''English Romayne Lyfe'' (i. e. Life of an Englishman in Rome) Drama *Anon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Pelletier Du Mans
Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier ( la, Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was a professor of mathematics and philosophy. He subsequently studied law and medicine, frequented the literary circle around Marguerite de Navarre and from 1541 to 1543 he was secretary to René du Bellay. In 1541 he published the first French translation of Horace's '' Ars Poetica'' and during this period he also published numerous scientific and mathematical treatises. In 1547 he produced a funeral oration for Henry VIII of England and published his first poems (''Œuvres poétiques''), which included translations from the first two cantos of Homer's ''Odyssey'' and the first book of Virgil's ''Georgics'', twelve Petrarchian sonnets, three Horacian odes and a Martial-like epigra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 25
Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. * 677 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls. * 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. *1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux. * 1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal. * 1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. *1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary Of Scientific Biography
The ''Dictionary of Scientific Biography'' is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with main editor the science historian Charles Gillispie, from Princeton University. It consisted of sixteen volumes. It is supplemented by the ''New Dictionary of Scientific Biography''. Both these publications are included in a later electronic book, called the ''Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography''. ''Dictionary of Scientific Biography'' The ''Dictionary of Scientific Biography'' is a scholarly English-language reference work consisting of biographies of scientists from antiquity to modern times, but excluding scientists who were alive when the ''Dictionary'' was first published. It includes scientists who worked in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and earth sciences. The work is notable for being one of the most substantial reference works in the field of history of science, containing extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1585 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1585. Events *February 2 – Hamnet Shakespeare, Hamnet and Judith Quiney, Judith, twin children of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, Anne, are baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon. *March 3 – The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, opens with a production of Sophocles' ''Oedipus Rex''), using trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective. *December 13 – The blind poet, playwright and actor Luigi Groto dies in Venice, having just come from the theatre, where he has played the role of the blind Oedipus Rex. New books Prose *John Calvin – ''The Commentaries... upon the Actes of the Apostles, Faithfully translated out of Latine into English for the great profite of our countrie-men, by Christopher Fetherstone, student in divinitie'' *Miguel de Cervantes – ''La Galatea'' Drama *Nicolas de Montreux – ''Athlette'' *Richard Tarlto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens (born Rembert Van Joenckema, 29 June 1517 – 10 March 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. Life Dodoens was born Rembert van Joenckema in Mechelen, then the capital of the Spanish Netherlands in 1517. His parents were Denis van Joenckema (d. 1533) and Ursula Roelants. The van Joenckema family and name are Frisian in origin. Its members were active in politics and jurisprudence in Friesland and some had moved in 1516 to Mechelen. His father was one of the municipal physicians in Mechelen and a private physician to Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, in her final illness. Margaret of Austria's court was based in Mechelen. Rembert later changed his last name to Dodoens (literally "Son of Dodo", a form of his father's name, Denis or Doede). He was educated at the municipal college in Mechelen before beginning his studies in medicine, cosmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 29
Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war. * 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. * 1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire *1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1601–1900 *1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. *1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound. *1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. *1659 – At the Battle of Konotop (1659), Battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
