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1520 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1520. Events *''unknown dates'' **Scholars at Complutense University, Alcalá de Henares, under the direction of Diego Lopez de Zúñiga, complete the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. **Ulrich von Hutten's satirical poem ''Aufwecker der teutschen Nation'' (Awakener of the German Nation) is published – his earliest work in German. New books Prose *''Hochstratus Ovans'' *Martin Luther **''To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation)'' **'' On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church (De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae praeludium)'' **''On the Freedom of a Christian'' *Niccolò Machiavelli – '' Discourse on Reforming the Government of Florence (Discorso sopra il riformare lo stato di Firenze)'' *Shin Maha Thilawuntha – '' Yazawin Kyaw'' (Burmese), supplement *''Ruyijun zhuan'' (claimed completion date) Drama * John Heywood – ''Johan Johan The Husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Johan The Husband
''The Merry Play between John John the Husband, Tib his Wife, and Sir John, the Priest'' is a Tudor era farcical comedic interlude written in 1520 and first published in 1533 by English playwright John Heywood. It relates the tale of a common Englishman who believes his wife to be cheating on him with the local priest. The play can be said to contain elements of a medieval morality play, but as the characters are not simple abstract personifications of a vice or virtue, ''John John'' can be seen to forge a link between the simpler morality plays of the medieval period, and the complex drama of the early modern period. Synopsis Dramatis personæ * JOHN JOHN, The husband of Tib, and a cuckold * TIB, His domineering and disloyal wife * SIR JOHN, a roughish priest Plot John John opens with the eponymous character alone in his poorly kept home, wondering after the whereabouts of his wife, Tyb, and debating whether he should beat her when she arrives. However, when she does come home ... [...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] |
Natalis Comes
Natale Conti or Latin Natalis Comes, also Natalis de Comitibus and French Noël le Comte (1520–1582) was an Italian mythographer, poet, humanist and historian. His major work ''Mythologiae'', ten books written in Latin, was first published in Venice in 1567 and became a standard source for classical mythology in later Renaissance Europe. It was reprinted in numerous editions; after 1583, these were appended with a treatise on the Muses by Geoffroi Linocier. By the end of the 17th century, his name was virtually synonymous with mythology: a French dictionary in defining the term ''mythologie'' noted that it was the subject written about by Natalis Comes. Conti believed that the ancient poets had meant for their presentations of myths to be read as allegory, and accordingly constructed intricate genealogical associations within which he found layers of meaning. Since Conti was convinced that the lost philosophy of Classical Antiquity could be recovered through understanding these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1573 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1573. Events *Torquato Tasso's pastoral play '' Aminta'' is first performed by ''I Gelosi'' in palace gardens in Ferrara. New books Drama *Anonymous – ''New Custom'' (published) * Jean de La Taille – ''La Famine, ou les Gabéonites'' *George Gascoigne (published in ''A Hundred Sundry Flowers'') **''Jocasta'' **''Supposes'' **''The Montague Masque'' *Torquato Tasso – '' Aminta'' Poetry *Jean-Antoine de Baïf – ''Œuvres en rime'' (Works in verse) *George Gascoigne – ''A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy...'' (first collected edition of his verse and drama) *''See also 1573 in poetry'' Births *November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian (died 1640 in literature) * December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (died 1613 in literature) *''Unknown dates'' ** Severin Binius, German historian (died 1641 in literature) **Daniel Naborowski, Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Baudouin
François Baudouin (1520 – 24 October 1573), also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. Among the most colourful of the noted French humanists, he was respected by his contemporaries as a statesman and jurist, even as they frowned upon his perceived inconstancy in matters of faith: he was noted as a Calvinist who converted to Catholicism. Life He was born at Arras, then part of the Empire, and educated in the convent school at St. Vaast. Baudouin studied law in the University of Leuven with Mudaeus. He settled as an advocate in Arras, where he continued his studies, but was banned from the town in 1545 on charges of heresy due to his Calvinist leanings. He went to the court of the Emperor Charles V at Brussels, and then travelled extensively. After brief stays in Paris, Strasbourg and Geneva – where he met and became an enemy of Calvin – he settled in 1549 in Bourges as a doctor and then professor of law, as a colleague of Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1575 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1575. Events *July – Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereux, the inspiration for his '' Astrophel and Stella''. *September 26 – Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates. *''unknown date'' **The first primer in the Estonian language is published. **First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's ''Tales of Count Lucanor'' appears. It was originally written in 1335. New books Prose *Anonymous – ''Arbatel de magia veterum'' *Ulpian Fulwell – ''The Flower of Fame'' (appendices in verse) Drama *George Gascoigne – ''The Glass of Government'' Poetry *Veronica Franco – ''Terze rime'' Births *April – Jakob Böhme, German theologian (died 1624) * August 14 – Robert Hayman, Newfoundland poet (died 1624) *August 15 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist (died 1650) *''Unknown dates'' **David Calderwood, Scottish historian (died 1650) ** John Cotta, English physician and writer (die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Flacius
Matthias Flacius Illyricus (Latin; hr, Matija Vlačić Ilirik) or Francovich ( hr, Franković) (3 March 1520 – 11 March 1575) was a Lutheran reformer from Istria, present-day Croatia. He was notable as a theologian, sometimes dissenting strongly with his fellow Lutherans, and as a scholar for his editorial work on the ''Magdeburg Centuries''. Biography Early life and education Flacius was born in Labin (Albona) in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich (Andrija Vlačić) alias Francovich and Jacobea (Jakovica) Luciani, daughter of a wealthy and powerful Albonian civic family. Her family was related by marriage to the local Lupetino (Lupetina) family: Jacobea's brother, Luciano Luciani, married Ivanka Lupetina, the sister of the friar Baldo Lupetino (Lupetina), likewise born in Labin, who later was condemned to death in Venice for his Lutheran sympathies. Andrea Vlacich was a small landowner, who died during his son's early childhood. Flacius went also by the name Franković. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 3
Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. * 1575 – Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Sultan of Bengal Daud Khan Karrani's army at the Battle of Tukaroi. * 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. 1601–1900 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. * 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia. *1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison. * 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. *1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. * 1849 – The Territory of Minnesota is created. * 1857 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Squire Of Low Degree
''The Squire of Low Degree'', also known as ''The Squyr of Lowe Degre'', ''The Sqyr of Lowe Degre'' or ''The Sqyr of Lowe Degree'', is an anonymous late Middle English or early Modern English verse romance. There is little doubt that it was intended to be enjoyed by the masses rather than the wealthy or aristocratic sections of society, and, perhaps in consequence of this, it was one of the better-known of the English romances during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and again in the 19th century. There are three texts of the poem: it was printed by Wynkyn de Worde c. 1520 under the title ''Undo Youre Dore'', though only fragments totalling 180 lines survive of this book; around 1555 or 1560 another edition in 1132 lines was produced by William Copland; and a much shorter version, thought to have been orally transmitted, was copied into Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript around the middle of the 17th century. The precise date of the poem is unknown, estimates varying from 1440 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lydgate
John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines. He explored and established every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the ''fabliau''. In the ''Troy Book'' (30,117 lines), an amplified translation of the Trojan history of the thirteenth-century Latin writer Guido delle Colonne, commissioned by Prince Henry (later Henry V), he moved deliberately beyond Chaucer's '' Knight's Tale'' and his ''Troilus'', to provide a full-scale epic. The '' Siege of Thebes'' (4716 lines) is a shorter excursion in the same field of chivalric epic. Chaucer's ''The Monk's Tale'', a brief catalog of the vicissitudes of Fortune, gives a hint of what is to come in Lydgate's massive ''Fall of Princes'' (36,365 lines), which is also derived, though not directly, from Boccaccio's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. It is thought that Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease. DEAD LINK He was supposedly on his way to explore and find inspiration for his comedies. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by William Shakespeare. One famous quotation by Terence reads: "''Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto''", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play ''Heauton Timorumenos''. Biography Terence's date of birth is disputed; Aelius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
