1651 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher Love, whose sermons were later published.

[edit] New books

• Gondibert (second impression) - Sir William Davenant
• Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
• Reliquiae Wottonianiae - Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)
• Jeune Alcidiane - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
• Abagar - Filip Stanislavov, first printed book in modern Bulgarian

[edit] Births

• April 6 - André Dacier, classical scholar (died 1722)
• August 6 - François Fénelon, theologian (died 1715)
•  ?November 12 - Sor Juana, poet (died 1695)

[edit] Deaths

• October 7 - Jacques Sirmond, scholar (born 1559)