Overview of the events of 1564 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1564.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
- Vishnu Varamballi – Virata Parva (earliest copy)[4]
Poetry
Births
- February 26 (baptised) – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (died 1593)
- March 9 – David Fabricius, German theologian (died 1617)
- March 20 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (died 1659)
- April 26 (baptism, traditional date of birth April 23) – William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)[5]
- Unknown dates
- Jean D'Espagnet, French lawyer, politician and author (died c. 1637)
- Kryštof Harant, Czech nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (died 1621)
- Henry Reynolds, English poet, schoolmaster and literary critic (died 1632)
- Juan de Aguilar Villaquirán, Spanish writer and translator (died 1618)
- Probable birth year – Henry Chettle, English dramatist and pamphleteer (died c. 1607)[6]
Deaths
- March 5 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (born 1512)
- March 27 – Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin (b. c. 1488)[7]
- April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist and travel writer (murdered, born 1517)
- April 1 – Christoph Froschauer, Swiss printer (plague, born c. 1490)
- April 9 – Georg Hartmann, German humanist engineer, author and printer (born 1489)
- May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist and patron of the arts (born 1500)[8]
- May 27 – John Calvin, French-born theologian (born 1509)[9]
- August 11 – Edward Ferrers, credited as an English dramatist (unknown date of birth)[10]
- September 26 – Theodor Bibliander, German theologian and publisher (plague, born c. 1505)
References
- ^ Arnoud S. Q. Visser (2005). Joannes Sambucus And The Learned Image: The Use Of The Emblem In Late-renaissance Humanism. BRILL. p. 215. ISBN 90-04-13866-8.
- ^ George W. Stroup (1 August 2009). Calvin. Abingdon Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-4267-6040-2.
- ^ Niccolò Machiavelli (1891). Il Principe. Clarendon Press. p. 50.
- ^ Karantha, K. Shivarama (1997). Yakṣagāna. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. p. 162. ISBN 81-7017-357-4.
- ^ "William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England's bard". BBC Timelines. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ Jenkins, Harold (1934). The Life and Work of Henry Chettle. Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited. p. 2. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Yavuz, Hulusi (1987). "SADRIAZAM LÜTFi PAŞA ve OSMANLI HILAFETİC". Marmara University Journal of the Faculty of Theology. 5: 43. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 22, 1536". cardinals.fiu.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ Thomas F. Torrance (19 December 1996). Theology in Reconstruction. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-72520-786-8.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ferrers, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.