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1531 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1531. Events *''unknown dates'' **The first emblem book appears, the ''Emblemata ()'', an unauthorized issue by the printer Heinrich Steyner in Augsburg, Bavaria, of Italian jurist Andrea Alciato's privately circulated Latin verses, accompanied by woodcuts. **Petrarch's poetry '' Trionfi'' (Triumphs) is first translated into French as ''Les Triomphes''. New books Prose *Henry Cornelius Agrippa – ''De occulta philosophia libri tres'', Book One *Andrea Alciato – ''Emblemata'' *Sir Thomas Elyot – ''The Boke Named the Governour'' (the first English work of moral philosophy) *Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – ''Discourses on Livy'' *Paracelsus – ''Opus Paramirum'' (written in St. Gallen) *Michael Servetus – ' (On the Errors of the Trinity) * William Turner – ' (completed in 1568) Drama *Accademia degli Intronati – '' Gl' Ingannati'' Poetry *Marguerite de Navarre – ' *Approximate dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Book
An emblem book is a book collecting emblems (allegorical illustrations) with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems. This category of books was popular in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Emblem books are collections of sets of three elements: an icon or image, a motto, and text explaining the connection between the image and motto. The text ranged in length from a few lines of verse to pages of prose. Emblem books descended from medieval bestiaries that explained the importance of animals, proverbs, and fables. In fact, writers often drew inspiration from Greek and Roman sources such as Aesop's Fables and Plutarch's Lives. Definition Scholars differ on the key question of whether the actual emblems in question are the visual images, the accompanying texts, or the combination of the two. This is understandable, given that first emblem book, the ''Emblemata'' of Andrea Alciato, was first issued in an unauthorized edition in which the woodcuts were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite De Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre (french: Marguerite d'Angoulême, ''Marguerite d'Alençon''; 11 April 149221 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman". Early life Marguerite was born in Angoulême on 11 April 1492, the eldest child of Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angoulême. Her father was a descendant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 11
Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings with the Ordinances of 1311. 1601–1900 * 1614 – The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States. *1634 – The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. * 1649 – Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians. * 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. * 1776 – American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777. * 1797 – The Royal Navy decisively defeats the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1612 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612. Events * January 6 – Ben Jonson's masque ''Love Restored'' is performed. *January 12 – The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's ''The Silver Age'' * January 13 – The King's Men perform Heywood's ''The Rape of Lucrece''. * February 2 – Queen Anne's Men return to court to play ''Greene's Tu Quoque''. * May 11 – Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit. *November 6 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir to King James I of England, dies of typhoid fever. His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons. *''unknown dates'' ** Thomas Shelton publishes ''The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha'', the first translation of Cervantes' novel ''Don Quixote'' (first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ercole Bottrigari
Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612) was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna. He distinguished himself by reciting poetry at a court function and was rewarded with the orders of Knight of the Holy See and Lateran in 1542.. Life and works Bottrigari published books of madrigals, including ''Il primo libro di madrigali a quattro voci'' (Venice, 1558) and ''Libro terzo de madrigali a cinque voci'' (Venice, 1583). In 1546 with the help of his father Bottrigari established a small private press, but very few works from it survive. In 1551 he married Lucrezia Usberti (died 1591). In 1576 he fled to Ferrara, where he got to know Torquato Tasso, and where he gathered information for his 1594 treatise ''Il Desiderio, overo de' concerti di varii strumenti musicali''. In 1586 he moved back to Bologna, where he was in touch with i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1613 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1613. Events *January–February – The English royal court sees massive celebrations for the marriage of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, to King James's daughter Princess Elizabeth, culminating in their wedding on February 14. **During court festivities in the winter of 1612–1613, the King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespeare plays, four by Beaumont and Fletcher, and the lost ''Cardenio''. **Early January – The Children of the Queen's Revels give two performances of Beaumont and Fletcher's ''Cupid's Revenge''. **January 11 – The English playing company that had been the Admiral's Men, then Prince Henry's Men, becomes the Elector Palatine's (or Palsgrave's) Men. **February 15 – ''The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn'', written by George Chapman and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged in the Great Hall of the Palace of Whitehall. Francis Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Letzner
Johannes Letzner (29 November 1531 – 16 February 1613) was a Renaissance-era German Protestant priest and historian of Lower Saxony, in particular of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Letzner studied briefly at Wittenberg University in 1550–1551 before moving to Uslar as cantor and school master, and later as vicar to Parensen (1553) Langenholtensen (1564), Lüthorst (1583), Iber (1589) and finally to Strodthagen where he retired in 1610 and died three years later. Letzner's works were widely perused in 18th-century historiography of Germany, but they are now considered highly unreliable. His magnum opus was going to be a "Great Chronicle of Brunswick-Lüneburg" ("Große Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Göttingensche Chronika") in eight volumes, on which he worked during 36 years of his life. This work was never printed in full, but the fifteen works Letzner published in print during his lifetime can be seen as portions of this work. ''Conradus Fontanus'' is one of the purported s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 29
Events Pre-1600 * 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom. * 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan. * 903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeats the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama. *1114 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. Antioch, Mamistra, Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks. *1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins. 1601–1900 * 1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India. * 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. *1732 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1601 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1601. Events *January 1 – The "Paul's Boys", a children's drama group, perform at the English royal court. * January 6 – The Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English court since 1584: ''Liberality and Prodigality'', by an unknown dramatist. *January 21 – Tirso de Molina enters the monastery of San Antolín at Guadalajara, Spain. *February 7 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of Shakespeare's '' Richard II'' at the Globe Theatre in London. The performance is specially commissioned (at a 40-shilling bonus) by the plotters in the Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day. The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails. * February 17 – Actor Augustine Phillips, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is deposed by the Privy Council of Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scipione Ammirato
Scipione Ammirato (October 7, 1531January 11, 1601) was an Italian historian and philosopher. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the history of philosophy. He is best known for his political treatise ''Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito'' (''Discourses on Tacitus''), published in 1594. The book soon became “an international classic” with numerous translations. In his ''Discorsi'' Ammirato presents himself as an anti-Machiavellian from the start, leaving no stone unturned in his efforts to confute the main theses of ''Il Principe''. Unlike Botero and Lipsius, Ammirato did not see Tacitism as a surrogate form of Machiavellianism. On the contrary, his ''Discorsi'' present the works of the Roman historian as an antidote to ''Il Principe'', and this approach was to prove widely popular during the long Tacitus revival. Moreover, Ammirato's doctrine of reason of state defined such “reason” as violating neither natural nor divine law; it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 7
Events Pre-1600 * 3761 BC – The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar. * 1403 – Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon. * 1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year. * 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice. *1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat. 1601–1900 *1691 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued. *1763 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. *1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1584 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584. Events * Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly. * London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin (scholar), Gregory Martin's Catholic ''A Treatise of Schisme'' (1578). New books Prose *Giordano Bruno – ''La Cena de le Ceneri'' (Ash Wednesday Supper) *John Dee – ''48 Claves angelicae'' (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków) *James VI and I, James VI of Scotland – ''Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie'' *David Powel – ''Cronica Walliae, The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales'' (first printed history of Wales) *Reginald Scot – ''The Discoverie of Witchcraft'' *Richard Stanihurst – ''De rebus in Hibernia gestis'' (Of matters in the history of Ireland) *Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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