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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] |
January 25
Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty. * 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome. * 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. * 1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne. * 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. * 1554 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests. *1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. * 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais. * 1585 – Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Estienne
Henri Estienne (; ; 1528 or 15311598), also known as Henricus Stephanus (), was a French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually take over the Estienne printing firm which his father owned in 1559 when his father died. His most well-known work was the ''Thesaurus graecae linguae'', which was printed in five volumes. The basis of Greek lexicology, no thesaurus would rival that of Estienne's for three hundred years. Among his many publications of Greek authors, his publications of Plato are the source of Stephanus pagination, which is still used to refer to Plato's works. Estienne died in Lyon in 1598. Life Henri Estienne was born in Paris in 1528 or 1531. His father instructed him in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and typography, and according to a note in his edition of ''Aulus Gellius'' (1585), he picked up some Latin as a child, as that language was used as a in the multi- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anrakuan Sakuden
was an Edo period Japanese priest of the Jōdo-shū sect of Buddhism; devotee of the tea ceremony; connoisseur of camellias; and dilettante poet. The name Anrakuan takes from the name of the tea house A teahouse (mainly Asia) or tearoom (also tea room) is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments. A tea room may be a room set aside in a hotel especially for serving afternoon tea, or may be an establishment wh ... that he built and lived at after he retired at the age of seventy. He is famous as the author of the ''Seisuishō'' (醒睡笑, Laughs to Wake You Up), which is a collection of humorous anecdotes. The ''Seisuishō'' is considered a major progenitor of the popular Edo-period literary genre called ''hanashibon'' (咄本), books of humorous stories. For this reason, Anrakuan Sakuden is called the founder of , the popular form of comic monologue performed by special storytellers. Anrakuan is also known as the founder of the Anrakuan schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1586 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1586. Events *September 19 – The English poet Chidiock Tichborne, imprisoned in the Tower of London on the eve of being hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Babington Plot, writes his ''Elegy'' ("My prime of youth is but a frost of cares"). *September 22 – The English poet, critic, courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney is fatally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen. *''unknown dates'' **Francis Bacon takes a new seat as MP in the Parliament of England, that of Taunton. **Oxford University Press is recognised in a decree of the Star Chamber in England. New books Prose *Caesar Baronius – ''Roman martyrology'' (new edition) *William Camden – ''Britannia'' (in Latin) *Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert – ''Zedekunst'' (Art of Ethics) *Angel Day – ''The English Secretary'' * Robert Greene – ''Morando, the Tritameron of Love'' (part 2) * John Knox – ''Historie of the Reformatioun of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sidney
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include List of kings of Macedonia, kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has #Philip in other languages, many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips (surname), Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides (other), Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocorism, hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly (other)#People, Philly, Lip (other), Lip, Pip (other), Pip, Pep (other), Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine de Rothschild, Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 30
Events Pre-1600 * 978 – Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. 1601–1900 * 1707 – Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida. * 1718 – Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. * 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). * 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day). * 1803 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. * 1803 – In N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1624 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1624. Events *January 18 – The King's Men perform William Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale'' at Whitehall Palace. *August 5– 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire ''A Game at Chess'' at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match. *August 26 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, requires the legal deposit of new books to the ''Hof-Bibliothek ("Imperial Library") in Vienna, the modern-day Austrian National Library. *December – The King's Men get into further trouble for performing Philip Massinger's ''The Spanish Viceroy'' without a licence from the Master of the Revels. *December 20 – The King's Men provide Sir Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels) with a "submission," a written apology, signed by each actor who had taken part in ''The Spanish Viceroy'' earlier in the month. The signatories include Robert Benfield, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis De La Puente
Luis de la Puente (also D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 November 2021 (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. A few years after his death, the admitted the cause of his beatification and canonization. Life Puente was born in . Having entered the |
November 11
Events Pre-1600 * 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor ''emeritus'' Diocletian confers with Galerius, ''Augustus'' of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former ''Augustus'' of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy. * 1028 – Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years. * 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day. *1215 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ. *1500 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. * 1572 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572. 1601– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1594 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1594. Events *c. February – The Shakespeare play ''Titus Andronicus'' is the first to be published, anonymously in London. His poem ''The Rape of Lucrece'' is published after May. *Spring – The London theaters reopen after two years of general inactivity due to the bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many actors who used to be Lord Strange's Men form a new company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain of England at the time. *April 6 and April 9 – Members of Queen Elizabeth's Men and Sussex's Men perform the early ''King Leir'' at the Rose Theatre in London. *May 14 – The reorganized Admiral's Men begin performances with Christopher Marlowe's ''The Jew of Malta''. *October – The first firmly recorded performance of Marlowe's '' The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus'' is given by the Admiral's Men with Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bálint Balassi
Baron Bálint Balassi de Kékkő et Gyarmat ( hu, Gyarmati és kékkői báró Balassi Bálint, sk, Valentín Balaša (Valaša) barón z Ďarmôt a Modrého Kameňa; 20 October 155430 May 1594) was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote mostly in Hungarian,István Nemeskürty, Tibor KlaniczayA history of Hungarian literature Corvina, 1982, p. 64 but was also proficient in eight more languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian and Romanian. He is the founder of modern Hungarian lyric and erotic poetry. Life Balassi was born at Zólyom in the Captaincy of Cisdanubia and Mining Towns in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Zvolen, Slovakia). He was educated by the reformer Péter Bornemisza and by his mother, the highly gifted Protestant zealot, Anna Sulyok. His first work was a translation of Michael Bock's ''Wurlzgertlein für die krancken Seelen'', (published in Kraków), to comfort his father while in Polish exile. On his father's rehabilitation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 20
Events Pre-1600 *1568 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent. * 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes. 1601–1900 * 1740 – France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. *1774 – American Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted by the First Continental Congress. * 1781 – The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria. * 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. * 1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. *1827 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
