1643 in literature
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The year 1643 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
- The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
- Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
- Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.
- Parliament issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press — the action John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
[edit] New books
- Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici (the 1st "authorized" edition, after 2 unauthorized in the previous year)
- Sir Kenelm Digby - Observations Upon Religio Medici
- John Milton - Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Roger Williams - A Key into the Language of America
[edit] New drama
- Pierre Corneille - Le Menteur
- Sir William Davenant - The Unfortunate Lovers published
[edit] Poetry
- Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant - Albion
[edit] Births
- March 26 - Louis Moréri, encyclopaedist (died 1680)
- September 18 - Bishop Gilbert Burnet, historian (died 1715)
- November 1 - John Strype, historian and biographer (died 1737)
- November 16 - Sir John Chardin, travel writer (died 1713)
[edit] Deaths
- April 4 - Simon Episcopius, theologian (born 1583)
- November 29 - William Cartwright, dramatist (born 1611)
- date unknown
- Abraham Azulai, Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
- Sidney Godolphin, poet (born 1610)
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
- Pedro de Oña, first known Chilean poet (born 1570)