1644 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.
Events
- Puritan government to make room for housing.[1]
- November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.[2]
- December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.[3]
- The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Calvinistcontext. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).
New books
Prose
- John Milton
- Areopagitica (tract against censorship)[2]
- Of Education
- Roger Williams – The Bloody Tenet of Persecution[4]
- Francisco de Quevedo
- Vida de Marco Bruto
- Vida de San Pablo Apóstol
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – Vida del santo padre y gran siervo de Dios el beato Francisco de Borja
- René Descartes – Principia Philosophiae[5]
- Marin Mersenne – Cogitata physico-mathematica
- Evangelista Torricelli – Opera geometrica[6]
- Giulio Strozzi (editor) – Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi romana (published in Venice; a tribute to Anna Renzi, the "first diva")[7]
Drama
- Lope de Vega – Fiestas del Santísimo Sacramento
- Le Menteur
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Virtue's Triumph[8]
Births
- Dumas novel (died 1710)
- October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French memoirist (died 1724)
- Unknown dates
- Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉), Japanese poet (died 1694)
- Elinor James, English pamphleteer (died 1719)
Deaths
- January 30 – William Chillingworth, English religious controversialist (born 1602)[9]
- March 5 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (born 1615)[10]
- March 8 – Xu Xiake (徐霞客), Chinese travel writer and geographer (born 1587)
- September 7 – Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, Italian historian (born 1579)[11]
- September 8 – Francis Quarles, English poet (born 1592)[12]
- Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1579)
- November 21 – Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Czech lawyer and writer (born 1580)
References
- ^ "The Old Globe Theater History and Timeline". Retrieved 2012-10-16.
- ^ ISBN 9780719045738.
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- ISBN 9780674475373.
- ISBN 9780802074393.
- ISBN 978-88-470-2056-6.
- ISBN 978-0-8357-1313-9.
- ^ Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27
- ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.
- ^ John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.
- ISBN 9780313308277.