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1576 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1576. Events *December – James Burbage opens The Theatre, the second permanent public playhouse in London (and the first to have a substantial life – 22 years), ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama. *''unknown dates'' **The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel. **The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a ''Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them'', an early example of autobiographical writing in English. New books Prose *Jean Bodin – ''Les Six livres de la République (The Six Books of the Republic)'' *Ulpian Fulwell – ''Ars adulandi, or, The Art of Flattery'' (dialogues) *Étienne de La Boétie (died 1563) – ''Discourse on Voluntary Servitude'' (''Discours de la servitude volontaire'', published as ''Le Contr'un'') *George Pettie – ''A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure'' *P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Le Maçon, Sieur De La Fontaine
Robert le Maçon, Sieur de la Fontaine, or Robert Masson, (1534/35–1611) was a French Reformed minister and diplomat. He founded a church in Orléans which became central to the Huguenot movement during the first French War of Religion 1562. Career He was born at Illiers, near Chartres, in the Orléanais, France; his parents names are unknown. In 1557 he was one of the founding ministers of the important Reformed church in Orléans, which became the capital of the Huguenot movement during the first war of religion in France in 1562. There he also probably met andmarried, about 1557, his first wife, Anne (d. 1605), who, according to the 1593 census of aliens in London, originally came from that city. La Fontaine (as he was usually known, being sieur de la Fontaine) fled to England at the time of the St Bartholomew's day massacre in 1572, and in October 1574 was appointed minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Diodati
Giovanni Diodati or Deodati (3 June 15763 October 1649) was a Genevan-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator. His translation of the Bible into Italian from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources became the reference version used by Italian Protestants. Biography He was born on 3 June 1576, at Geneva, to a noble family originally from Lucca in Italy, and was exiled on account of its Protestantism. He considered himself an Italian "di nation lucchese", of Lucchese nationality. His father was . The were part of a group of about sixty noble Luchessi families who had emigrated to Geneva, sometimes called the "Italian Cabal". Between 1594 and 1597, future Amsterdam burgomaster Jacob Dircksz de Graeff lived for three years in the house of Diodati. He matriculated at the Genevan Academy in 1596. At the age of twenty-one he was nominated professor of Hebrew at Geneva on the recommendation of Theodore Beza. In 1606, he became professor of theology, in 1608 pastor, or p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 6
Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander on his deathbed. * 1505 – The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, causing severe damage in Kathmandu and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain. * 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: In the Battle of Novara, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. * 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day. 1601–1900 * 1654 – Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism. * 1674 – Shivaji is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1649 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1649. Events *January 1 – Local authorities raid the four remaining London theatres – the Salisbury Court, the Red Bull, the Cockpit and the Fortune – to suppress clandestine play-acting. The actors found are arrested – except for the members of the Red Bull company, who manage to escape. *February 9 – '' Eikon Basilike: the Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings'', purporting to be the spiritual autobiography of King Charles I of England, is published ten days after his execution and becomes a popular success. John Gauden later claims to have written it. * March 24 – The authorities damage the Cockpit Theatre to inhibit continued attempts to use it for plays. (The building is not destroyed, however, and in 1660 it is fixed and used again, when drama resumes after the Restoration.) * April 23 – William Everard, a Digger, issues "The Declaration and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspar Schoppe
Caspar Schoppe (27 May 1576 – 19 November 1649) was a German catholic controversialist, philosopher and scholar. Life He was born at Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate and studied at several German universities. He converted to Roman Catholicism in about 1599, after reading the ''Annales Ecclesiastici'' of Baronius. Schoppe obtained the favour of Pope Clement VIII, and distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants. He became involved in a controversy with Joseph Justus Scaliger, formerly his intimate friend, and others; wrote ''Ecclesiasticus auctoritati Jacobi regis oppositus'' (1611), an attack upon James I of England; and in '' Classicum belli sacri'' (1619) urged the Catholic princes to wage war upon the Protestants. In about 1607, Schoppe entered the service of Ferdinand, archduke of Styria, afterwards Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, who found him very useful in rebutting the arguments of the Protestants, and who sent him on several diplom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 27
Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. * 1199 – John is crowned King of England. * 1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral. 1601–1900 * 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing. * 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. * 1798 – The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London. A bloodless duel between the Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger and his political opponent George Tierney. * 1798 – The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660. Events *January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January. *February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. His production of ''Pericles'' will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle. *May – The English Restoration brings a host of Royalist exiles back to England, Richard Baxter among them, and many panegyrics are produced to commemorate the event. *June – A warrant is issued for the arrest of the anti-monarchist John Milton, who is forced into hiding, whilst his writings are burned. *August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrus Scriverius
Petrus Scriverius, the Latinised form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (12 January 1576 – 30 April 1660), was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of the Low Countries. Life and work He was born at Haarlem and was educated by Cornelis Schoneus at the University of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius. In 1599 he completed his studies and in the same year married Anna van der Aar (1576-1656). The couple had many children, of whom only two sons, including Willem Schrijver, survived to adulthood. Thanks to Anna's money and his own family capital, he needed no other source of income and was able to lead a life as an independent scholar. From 1611 to 1613, Scriverius was the headmaster of the Latin School in Duisburg, now Landfermann-Gymnasium. Scriverius belonged to the political Party of the Dutch States Party of Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius and brought down the displeasure of the government by a copy of Latin verses to honour of their frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 12
Events Pre-1600 * 475 – List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523. *1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the Toungoo dynasty, largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned List of Burmese monarchs, King of Burma. 1601–1900 *1616 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco. *1792 – Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to Britain. *1808 – John Rennie the Elder, John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and Anglo-Saxon art, sculpture. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramcharitmanas
''Ramcharitmanas'' ( deva, रामचरितमानस, rāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1511–1623). It has many inspirations, the primary being the ''Ramayana'' of Valmiki. This work is also called, in popular parlance, ''Tulsi Ramayana'', ''Tulsikrit Ramayana'', ''Tulsidas Ramayana'' or simply '' Manas''. The word ''Ramcharitmanas'' literally means "Lake of the deeds of Rama". It is considered one of the greatest works of Hindu literature. The work has variously been acclaimed as "the living sum of Indian culture", "the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Indian poetry", "the greatest book of all devotional literature" and "the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of the Indian people".Lutgendorf 1991, p. 1. Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit, but due to limited accessibility of the language, he chose to write it in the vernacular, Awadhi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulsidas
Rambola Dubey (; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623pp. 23–34.), popularly known as Goswami Tulsidas (), was a Vaishnavism, Vaishnava (Ramanandi Sampradaya, Ramanandi) Hinduism, Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi language, Awadhi, and Braj Bhasha, but is best known as the author of the ''Hanuman Chalisa'' and of the epic ''Ramcharitmanas'', a retelling of the Sanskrit ''Ramayana'', based on Rama's life, in the vernacular Awadhi language. Tulsidas spent most of his life in the cities of Banaras (modern Varanasi) and Ayodhya. The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges in Varanasi is named after him. He founded the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of Hanuman, the deity. Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaptation of the ''Ramayana''.: ... this book ... is also a drama, because Goswami Tulasidasa started his ''Ram Lila'' on the basis of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
