1584 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1584.
Events
- Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.[1]
New books
- A Booke of Cookry
- Giordano Bruno - La Cena de le Ceneri ("Ash Wednesday Supper")
- John Dee - 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys) (written in Kraków).
- James VI of Scotland - Some Reulis and Cautelis
- David Powel - Historie of Cambria
- Reginald Scot - The Discoverie of Witchcraft
- Richard Stanihurst - De rebus in Hibernia gestis
- "John Soowthern" - Pandora
- Virupaksha Pandita - Chenna Basava Purana
New drama
- Robert Wilson (attr.) - The Three Ladies of London
Poetry
See 1584 in poetry
Births
- May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
- August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
- September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
- Unknown date – Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
Deaths
- February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)
- March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
- June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)[2]
- July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
- August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)
- November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)
- Unknown dates
- Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
- Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
- Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)