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- Thomas LeggeThomas LeggeThomas Legge was an English playwright, prominently known for his play Richardus Tertius, which is considered to be the first history play written in England.-Biography:...
's Latin play about Richard IIIRichard III of EnglandRichard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty...
, Richardus TertiusRichardus TertiusRichardus Tertius is a play written in Latin about King Richard III by Thomas Legge. The play was acted by St. John's College, Cambridge in 1580...
, is acted by students at St John's College, CambridgeSt John's College, CambridgeSt John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
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New books
- Book of ConcordBook of ConcordThe Book of Concord or Concordia is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century...
- Jean BodinJean BodinJean Bodin was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty; he was also an influential writer on demonology....
- De la demonomanie des sorciers - John LylyJohn LylyJohn Lyly was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.-Biography:John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554...
- Euphues and his England - Michel de MontaigneMichel de MontaigneLord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne , February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592, was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism...
- EssaisEssays (Montaigne)Essays is the title given to a collection of 107 essays written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number...
Poetry
- Luís Vaz de Camões - Luís Vaz de Camões
- Jan KochanowskiJan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
- LamentsLaments (Treny)The Laments are a series of nineteen threnodies by Jan Kochanowski.Written in Polish and published in 1580, they are a highlight of Polish Renaissance literature, and one of Kochanowski's signal achievements.-Composition:Jan Kochanowski was the greatest Polish poet and the greatest Slavic poet...
Births
- June 9 - Daniel HeinsiusDaniel HeinsiusDaniel Heinsius was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.-His youth and student years:...
, Dutch scholar (died 1655) - September 17 - Francisco de QuevedoFrancisco de QuevedoFrancisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo...
, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645) - October 12 - Hortensio Félix ParavicinoHortensio Félix ParavicinoHortensio Félix Paravicino y Arteaga was a Spanish preacher and poet from the noble house of Pallavicini....
, Spanish poet (died 1633) - date unknown
- Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, French theologian (died 1646)
- Thomas Adams, English religious writer (died 1652)
- Manuel de AlmeidaManuel de AlmeidaManuel de Almeida was a native of Viseu, who entered at an early age into the Society of Jesus, and went out as a missionary to India...
, Spanish historian (died 1646) - Francisco de AraujoFrancisco de AraujoFrancisco de Araujo was a Spanish Catholic theologian.He was born at Verin, Galicia, Spain. In 1601, he entered the Dominican Order at Salamanca. He taught theology in the convent of St. Paul at Burgos, and in the latter year was made assistant to Peter of Herrera, the principal professor of...
, Spanish theologian (died 1664) - Philipp ClüverPhilipp ClüverPhilipp Clüver was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.-Life:...
, German historian (died 1623) - Christophe JustelChristophe JustelChristophe Justel was a French scholar, known as Christophorus or Christopher Justellus.A librarian, canonist and Protestant, he served as secretary to the French king Henri IV, buying the office for his son Henri Justel ....
, French scholar (died 1649) - Ling MengchuLing MengchuLing Mengchu , was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty, known for his vernacular short fiction collections Astonished Slaps Upon the Desktop , I and II.- Biography :...
, Chinese vernacular writer (died 1644) - Francisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues Lobo was a Portuguese poet and bucolic writer.He was born of rich and noble parents but of Sephardi Portuguese ancestry in Leiria, reading philosophy, poetry and writing of shepherds and shepherdesses by the rivers Liz and Lena. He studied at the University of Coimbra and took...
, Portuguese poet (died 1621) - Francisco de LugoFrancisco de Lugo- Biography :He was born in Madrid in 1580. He was the elder brother of Cardinal John de Lugo, and, like him, a distinguished member of the Society of Jesus, which he entered at the novitiate of Salamanca in 1600....
, Spanish theologian (died 1652) - Thomas MiddletonThomas MiddletonThomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
, English poet and dramatist (died 1627)
Deaths
- June 10 - Luís de CamõesLuís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524) - August 20 - Jeronymo OsorioJeronymo OsorioJerónimo Osório was a Portuguese historian, a native of Lisbon and son of the Ouvidor Geral of India.-Life:In 1519 his mother sent him to Salamanca to study civil law, and in 1525 he went on to Paris to study philosophy, and there became intimate with Peter Faber, one of the founders of the...
, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) - November 3 - Jeronimo Zurita y CastroJeronimo Zurita y CastroJerónimo de Zurita y Castro was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain....
, Spanish historian (born 1512) - date unknown
- Hernando de AcuñaHernando de AcuñaHernando de Acuña , a native of Valladolid, was a favorite of Charles V, not only for his military, but for his literary talents. His translation of the well-known romance of Olivier de la Marche, under the title of El Cavallero Determinado, was much esteemed by the emperor; so indeed were his...
, Spanish translator (b. c. 1520) - Sebastián de HorozcoSebastián de HorozcoSebastián de Horozco was a poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age....
, Spanist poet and dramatist (b. 1510) - Robert Lindsay of PitscottieRobert Lindsay of PitscottieRobert Lindsay of Pitscottie was a Scottish chronicler, author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, the first history of Scotland to be composed in Scots rather than Latin....
, Scottish chronicler (born c1532) - Thomas TusserThomas TusserThomas Tusser was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557. It contains the lines...
, English poet (b. 1524) - Hieronymus WolfHieronymus WolfHieronymus Wolf was a sixteenth-century German historian and humanist, most famous for introducing a system of Byzantine historiography that eventually became the standard in works of medieval Greek history.- His life :...
, German historian (b. 1516)
- Hernando de Acuña
- probable - Raphael HolinshedRaphael HolinshedRaphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles, was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays....
, chronicler