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- Torquato TassoTorquato TassoTorquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem...
enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara. - Poet and missionary José de AnchietaJosé de AnchietaJosé de Anchieta was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of...
co-founds Rio de Janeiro.
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- Pierre PithouPierre PithouPierre Pithou was a French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as Petrus Pithoeus.He was born at Troyes. From childhood he loved literature, and his father Pierre encouraged this interest. Young Pithou was called to the Paris bar in 1560...
- Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II - Camillo PorzioCamillo PorzioCamillo Porzio was an Italian historian.He belonged to a wealthy and noble Neapolitan family, and was the son of the philosopher Simone Porzio...
- La Congiura dei baroni - John StowJohn StowJohn Stow was an English historian and antiquarian.-Early life:The son of Thomas Stow, a tallow-chandler, he was born about 1525 in London, in the parish of St Michael, Cornhill. His father's whole rent for his house and garden was only 6s. 6d. a year, and Stow in his youth fetched milk every...
- Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles - Bernardino TelesioBernardino TelesioBernardino Telesio was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist.While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed thescientific method.-Biography:...
- De natura juxta propria principia (On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles)
Births
- September 28 - Alessandro TassoniAlessandro TassoniAlessandro Tassoni was an Italian poet and writer.- Life :He was born in Modena, to a noble family. In 1597, he began his service for the cardinal Colonna whom he followed to Spain. In 1603 he was back in Italy and moved to Rome.In 1612 he published anonymously the booklet Le Filippiche in which...
, poet (d. 1635) - date unknown
- Gonzalo de IllescasGonzalo de IllescasGonzalo de Illescas was a Spanish historian and abbot. Born in Dueñas, Palencia province, he was abbot of San Frontís de Zamora. He studied at Salamanca, and may have earned a degree in theology...
, historian (d. 1633) - Francis MeresFrancis MeresFrancis Meres was an English churchman and author.He was born at Kirton in the Holland division of Lincolnshire in 1565. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1587 and an M.A. in 1591. Two years later he was incorporated an M.A. of Oxford...
, clergyman and author (d. 1647) - Anthony ShirleyAnthony ShirleySir Anthony Shirley was an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I was an important event because it caused the British House of Commons to assert one of its privileges—freedom of its members from arrest—in a document known as The Form of Apology and Satisfaction.He was the...
, traveller and writer (d. 1635)
- Gonzalo de Illescas
Deaths
- March 17 - Alexander AlesAlexander AlesAlexander Ales was a Scottish theologian of the school of Augsburg.-Life:Originally Alexander Alane, he was born at Edinburgh. He studied at St Andrews in the newly-founded college of St Leonard's, where he graduated in 1515...
, theologian (b. 1500) - May 14 - Nicolaus von AmsdorfNicolaus von AmsdorfNicolaus von Amsdorf was a German theologian and Protestant reformer.-Biography:He was born in Torgau, on the Elbe....
, theologian (b. 1483) - August 27 - William RastellWilliam Rastell-Life:He was born in London. At the age of seventeen he went to the University of Oxford, but did not take a degree, being probably called home to superintend the printing business of his father John Rastell....
, printer (b. 1508) - October 7 - Johannes MathesiusJohannes MathesiusJohannes Mathesius , also called Johann Mathesius or John Mathesius, was a German minister and a Lutheran reformer. He is best known for his compilation of Martin Luther's Table Talk, or notes taken of Luther's conversation and published afterwards...
, theologian (b. 1504) - October 22 - Jean Grolier de Servières, bibliophile (b. 1479)
- date unknown
- Paolo PinoPaolo PinoPaolo Pino was an Italian painter and art writer. He was born in Venice. A student of Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, he wrote the "Dialogo di pittura" , which affirmed the supremacy of the Venetian School over the Florentine School and anticipated some aspects of the Mannerist style.-Works:* Dialogo...
, painter and writer on art (b. 1534) - Benedetto VarchiBenedetto VarchiBenedetto Varchi was an Italian humanist, a historian and poet.-Biography:Born in Florence to a family that had originated at Montevarchi, he frequented the neoplatonic academy that Bernardo Rucellai organized in his garden, the Orti Oricellari; there, in spite of the fact that Rucellai was...
, poet and historian (b. c. 1502)
- Paolo Pino