1595 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1595.
Events
- May 24 - The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- December 9 - Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted at a private performance at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby; Sir Robert Cecil attends.
- Following the death of his first wife, Isabel, in the previous year,[1] Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.
New books
- Mikalojus Daukša - Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus[2]
- Justus Lipsius - De militia romana
- Nicholas Remy - Daemonolatreiae libri tres
- Sir Philip Sidney - An Apology for Poetry (written between 1580–1583; published for the first time posthumously)[3]
- Vincentio Saviolo - His practise, in two bookes. (the first manual of fence (fencing) to be written in English; published by John Wolfe of London)[4]
- Fausto Veranzio - Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ (published in Venice)[5]
New drama
- Anonymous - Locrine published claiming to be revised by "W.S."[6]
- Jakob Ayrer - Von der Erbauung Roms ("The Building of Rome")
- Gervase Markham - The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
- Antoine de Montchrestien - Sophonisbe
- William Shakespeare (possible date)
- Robert Wilson? - The Pedlers Prophecie
Poetry
- Barnabe Barnes - A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets
- Richard Barnfield - Cynthia
- Thomas Campion - Poemata
- George Chapman (anonymous) - Ovid's Banquet of Sense
- Gervase Markham - The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
- Robert Southwell (anonymous) - Saint Peter's Complaint
- Edmund Spenser - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Births
- March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
- December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
- Unknown dates
- Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
- Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676 in literature)
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish writer and mystic (died 1658)
Deaths
- February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
- March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
- April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
- May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
- June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547))
- October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547))
- November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)
References
- ↑ "Isabel de Urbina". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- ↑ Full title in Lithuanian: Postilla catholicka. Tai est izguldimas ewangeliu...
- ↑ Craig, D.H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." In Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney. Hamden: Archon Books.
- ↑ PDF Copy available here.
- ↑ Copy available here.
- ↑ Maxwell, Baldwin (1956). Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. New York: King's Crown Press. pp. 39–63.