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- Meleager, a Latin play on the mythological figureMeleagerIn Greek mythology, Meleager was a hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia. He was already famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer....
by "Gulielmus Gagerus" (William GagerWilliam GagerWilliam Gager was an English jurist, now known for his Latin dramas.He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford....
), is performed by students at Christ Church, OxfordChrist Church, OxfordChrist Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
in February.
New books
- George BuchananGeorge Buchanan (humanist)George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the Monarchomach movement.-Early life:...
- Rerum Scoticarum Historia - Hieronimo de Caranza - Libro dela Philosophia delas Armas
- Douay-Rheims Bible
- Richard HakluytRichard HakluytRichard Hakluyt was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and...
- Divers Voyages
New drama
- Anonymous - The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
- William GagerWilliam GagerWilliam Gager was an English jurist, now known for his Latin dramas.He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford....
- Meleager (LatinLatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
) - Giovanni Battista GuariniGiovanni Battista GuariniGiovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.- Life :He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567...
- Il pastor fido
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- January 6 - Alonso de ContrerasAlonso de ContrerasAlonso de Contreras , was a Spanish soldier, sailor, privateer, adventurer and writer, best known as the author of his autobiography; one of the very few autobiographies of Spanish soldiers under the Spanish Habsburgs and possibly one of the finest, together with the True History of the Conquest...
, Spanish adventurer and writer (d. 1641) - January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (d. 1621)
- February 6 - Mario BettinusMario BettinusMario Bettinus was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651. His Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae is an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities...
, Italian philosopher (d. 1657) - October 17 - Johann GerhardJohann GerhardJohann Gerhard was a Lutheran church leader and Lutheran Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy.-Biography:He was born in the German city of Quedlinburg...
, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1637) - November - Susanna HallSusanna HallSusanna Hall , née Shakespeare, was the eldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the older sister of Judith Quiney and Hamnet Shakespeare...
, daughter of William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(d. 1648) - date unknown
- Giovanni Francesco AbelaGiovanni Francesco AbelaGiovanni Francesco Abela was a Maltese of noble birth who in the early 17th century wrote an important work on Malta, Malta illustrata con le sue Antichità ed altre Notizie ....
, Maltese writer (d. 1655) - Richard CorbetRichard CorbetRichard Corbet was an English bishop in the Church of England. He was also a poet of the metaphysical school who, although highly praised in his own lifetime, is relatively obscure today.-Life:...
, English poet (d. 1635) - Phineas FletcherPhineas FletcherPhineas Fletcher was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the younger. He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582.-Life:...
, English poet (d. 1650) - William LithgowWilliam Lithgow (traveller and author)William Lithgow , traveller, writer and alleged spy, born at Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles on foot....
, Scottish traveller and author (d. 1645) - François MaynardFrançois MaynardFrançois Maynard, sometimes seen as "de Maynard" was a French poet who spent much of his life in Toulouse.-Life and works:...
, French poet (d. 1646)
- Giovanni Francesco Abela
Deaths
- January 26 - Thomas PlatterThomas PlatterThomas Platter was a Swiss humanist scholar and writer.His sons Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger both studied medicine, a thwarted ambition of Platter's own early life...
, Swiss humanist writer (b. 1499) - September 28 - George BuchananGeorge BuchananGeorge Buchanan may refer to:*George Buchanan , Scottish humanist*Sir George Buchanan , Scottish soldier during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms*Sir George Buchanan , Chief Medical Officer...
, Scottish historian (b. 1506) - date unknown
- Natalis ComesNatalis ComesNatale Conti or Latin Natalis Comes, also Natalis de Comitibus and French Noël le Comte was an Italian mythographer, poet, humanist and historian. His major work Mythologiae, ten books written in Latin, was first published in Venice in 1567 and became a standard source for classical mythology in...
, Italian mythographer, poet and historian (b. 1520) - Jobus FinceliusJobus FinceliusJob Fincelius was a 16th century humanist and physician. Born Hiob Fincel , he studied at Erfurt, Jena, and Wittenberg before becoming a master of philosophy at Wittenberg . In 1562, he was professor and assistant of medicine at Weimar...
, German humanist writer - Jacques Peletier du MansJacques Peletier du MansJacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier, in Latin: Peletarius , was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance....
, French humanist poet (b. 1517)
- Natalis Comes