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Overview of the events of 1564 in literature
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)
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