1574 in literature
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Events
- Creation of the original Exercicio quotidianoExercicio quotidianoThe Exercicio quotidiano is a Nahuatl-language Christian religious manuscript, consisting of daily meditations with Latin passages taken from the New Testament....
(religious manuscript in the Nahuatl language).
New books
- Jean-Antoine de BaïfJean-Antoine de BaïfJean Antoine de Baïf was a French poet and member of the Pléiade.-Life:He was born in Venice, the natural son of the scholar Lazare de Baïf, who was at that time French ambassador at Venice...
- Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures - Matthias FlaciusMatthias FlaciusMatthias Flacius Illyricus was a Lutheran reformer.He was born in Carpano, a part of Albona in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich alias Francovich and Jacobea Luciani, daughter of a wealthy and powerful Albonian family...
et al. - Magdeburg CenturiesMagdeburg CenturiesThe Magdeburg Centuries is an ecclesiastical history, divided into thirteen centuries, covering thirteen hundred years, ending in 1298; it was first published from 1559 to 1574. It was compiled by several Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg, known as the Centuriators of Magdeburg. The chief of the... - Nicolás MonardesNicolás MonardesNicolás Bautista Monardes was a Spanish physician and botanist.The genus Monarda was named for him.Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo llamado pharmacodilosis , he examines humanism and suggests studying several classical authors, principally Pedanius Dioscorides...
- Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias OccidentalesHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias OccidentalesHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales is the standard title for a survey by Nicolás Monardes , Spanish physician and botanist...
Births
- September - Thomas GatakerThomas GatakerThomas Gataker was an English clergyman and theologian.-Life:He was born in London and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1601 to 1611 he held the appointment of preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn, which he resigned on accepting the rectory of Rotherhithe...
, English theologian (d. 1654) - September 18 - Claudio AchilliniClaudio AchilliniClaudio Achillini was an Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and jurist.Born in Bologna, he was grandson to Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and grand-nephew to Alessandro Achillini. He was professor of jurisprudence for several years at his native Bologna, Parma, and Ferrara, with the...
, Italian philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1640) - November 4 - Erycius PuteanusErycius PuteanusErycius Puteanus was a humanist and philologist from the Low Countries.-Life:He was born in Venlo and studied at the schools of Dordrecht and Cologne , where he took the degree of Master of Arts, 28 February 1595...
, Dutch philologist (d. 1646) - date unknown
- Richard BarnfieldRichard BarnfieldRichard Barnfield , English poet, was born at Norbury, Staffordshire, and brought up in Newport, Shropshire.He was baptized on 13 June 1574, the son of Richard Barnfield, gentleman. His obscure though close relationship with Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars...
, English poet (d. 1627) - Nicolas CoeffeteauNicolas CoeffeteauNicolas Coeffeteau was a French theologian, poet and historian born at Saint-Calais.He entered the Dominican order and lectured on philosophy at Paris, being also ordinary preacher to Henry IV, and afterwards ambassador at Rome....
, French theologian, poet and historian (d. 1623) - John DayJohn Day (dramatist)John Day was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.-Life:He was born at Cawston, Norfolk, and educated at Ely. He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book...
, English dramatist (d. c. 1640) - Feng MenglongFeng MenglongFeng Menglong was a Chinese vernacular writer and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou, now Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China....
, Chinese vernacular poet (d. 1645) - Paul LaymannPaul LaymannPaul Laymann was an Austrian Jesuit and important moralist.Laymann was born at Arzl, near Innsbruck. After studying jurisprudence at Ingolstadt, he entered the Society of Jesus there in 1594, was ordained priest in 1603, taught philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt from 1603-9, moral...
, Austrian moralist (d. 1635)
- Richard Barnfield
Deaths
- January 30 - Damião de GóisDamião de GóisDamiao de Góis , born in Alenquer, Portugal, was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was appointed secretary to the Portuguese factory in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal...
, Portuguese humanist philosopher (b. 1502) - April 17 - Joachim CamerariusJoachim CamerariusJoachim Camerarius , the Elder was a German classical scholar.-Life:He was born at Bamberg, Bavaria...
, German classical scholar (b. 1500) - June 27 - Giorgio VasariGiorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
, artist and biographer of artists (b. 1511) - November 7 - Solomon LuriaSolomon LuriaSolomon Luria was one of the great Ashkenazic poskim and teachers of his time. He is known for his work of Halakha, Yam Shel Shlomo, and his Talmudic commentary Chochmat Shlomo...
, Jewish legal author (b. 1510) - November 28 - Georg MajorGeorg MajorGeorge Major was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in Nuremberg and died at Wittenberg.-Life:...
, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1502) - date unknown
- Ascanio CondiviAscanio CondiviAscanio Condivi was an Italian painter and writer. Generally regarded as a mediocre artist, he is primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo.-Biography:...
, biographer of Michelangelo (b. 1525) - Paulus ManutiusPaulus ManutiusPaulus Manutius was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano. Aldus died when the boy was two, and his grandfather and two uncles, the Asolani, carried on the Aldine Press...
, Venetian printer (b. 1512) - Cornelio MussoCornelio MussoCornelio Musso was an Italian Friar Minor Conventual, and Bishop of Bitonto, prominent at the Council of Trent. He was, perhaps, the most renowned orator of his day, styled the "Italian Demosthenes"...
, Italian orator and writer (b. 1511) - Ioannes SommerusIoannes SommerusJohann Sommer or in Latin Ioannes Sommerus was a Transylvanian Saxon Protestant theologian, poet and Despot Vodă's biographer.In 1562 he enrolled at University of Frankfurt, but did not graduate...
, Saxon theologian (b. 1542)
- Ascanio Condivi