1595 in literature

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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1595.

Events

May 24 – The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
unknown dates
- The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada) appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
- Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.^[1]

New books

Prose

Mikalojus Daukša – Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus^[2]
Justus Lipsius – De militia romana^[3]
Nicholas Remy – Daemonolatreiae libri tres
Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous, written 1580–83) – An Apology for Poetry^[4]
Vincentio Saviolo – His practise, in two bookes. (first manual of fencing in English)^[5]
Fausto Veranzio – Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ published in Latin in Venice^[6]

Drama

Anonymous – Locrine (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")^[7]
Jakob Ayrer – Von der Erbauung Roms (Of the Building of Rome)
Gervase Markham – The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville^[8]
Antoine de Montchrestien – Sophonisbe
Robert Wilson? – The Pedlers Prophecie
Approximate year
- William Alabaster, Roxana
- William Shakespeare, Richard II
  - Romeo and Juliet
  - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry

Barnabe Barnes – A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets^[9]
Richard Barnfield – Cynthia
Thomas Campion – Poemata
George Chapman (anonymous) – Ovid's Banquet of Sense
Gervase Markham – The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
Robert Southwell (anonymous) – Saint Peter's Complaint
Edmund Spenser
- Amoretti and Epithalamion ("written not long since")
- Colin Clouts Come Home Againe^[10]

Births

March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
before June – Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
October 18 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (died 1655)
December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
Unknown dates
- Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663)^[11]
- Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676)
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish Jesuit writer and mystic (died 1658)

Deaths

February – William Painter, English translator (born c. 1540)
February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)^[12]
May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547)^[13]
October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547)
November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)^[14]

References

^ "Isabel de Urbina". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
^ Temčinas, Sergejus (2013). "Pirmoji Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštijoje lietuviškai spausdinta (katalikiška) knyga: hipotetinis 1585 metų ar Mikalojaus Daukšos 1595 metų katekizmas?". In Bumblauskas, Alfredas; Potašenko, Grigorijus (eds.). Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštijos istorijos ir tradicijos fenomenai: tautų atminties vietos (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. pp. 62–79. ISBN 978-609-459-221-8.
^ Justus Lipsius (2004). Politica: Six Books of Politics Or Political Instruction. Uitgeverij Van Gorcum. p. 126. ISBN 978-90-232-4038-9.
^ Craig, D.H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." In Arthur F. Kinney, ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney, Hamden: Archon Books.
^ "PDF Copy available here" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
^ Copy available here.
^ Maxwell, Baldwin (1956). Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. New York: King's Crown Press. pp. 39–63.
^ John Payne Collier (1820). The Poetical Decameron Or the Conversations on English Poets and Poetry. pp. 67.
^ Ruoff, James E. (1975-11-11). Macmillan's Handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart Literature. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-349-02793-4.
^ Edmund Spenser (1873). The Works of Edmund Spenser: Complaints (concluded). Colin Clouts come home againe. Foure hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion. Sonnets. Britain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland. Glossary. p. 66.
^ A. L. Dallapiccola (30 September 2006). Indian love poetry. Interlink Books. p. 90.
^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1979). Torquato Tasso: A Play. Manchester University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7190-0720-0.
^ John Platts (1826). A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions. Sherwood, Jones & Company. p. 674.
^ Encyclopaedia Britannica: First Published in 1768 by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1973. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-85229-173-3.

[1] "Isabel de Urbina". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2013-02-01.

[2] Temčinas, Sergejus (2013). "Pirmoji Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštijoje lietuviškai spausdinta (katalikiška) knyga: hipotetinis 1585 metų ar Mikalojaus Daukšos 1595 metų katekizmas?". In Bumblauskas, Alfredas; Potašenko, Grigorijus (eds.). Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštijos istorijos ir tradicijos fenomenai: tautų atminties vietos (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. pp. 62–79. ISBN 978-609-459-221-8.

[3] Justus Lipsius (2004). Politica: Six Books of Politics Or Political Instruction. Uitgeverij Van Gorcum. p. 126. ISBN 978-90-232-4038-9.

[4] Craig, D.H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." In Arthur F. Kinney, ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney, Hamden: Archon Books.

[5] "PDF Copy available here" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2010-04-12.

[6] Copy available here.

[7] Maxwell, Baldwin (1956). Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. New York: King's Crown Press. pp. 39–63.

[8] John Payne Collier (1820). The Poetical Decameron Or the Conversations on English Poets and Poetry. pp. 67.

[9] Ruoff, James E. (1975-11-11). Macmillan's Handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart Literature. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-349-02793-4.

[10] Edmund Spenser (1873). The Works of Edmund Spenser: Complaints (concluded). Colin Clouts come home againe. Foure hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion. Sonnets. Britain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland. Glossary. p. 66.

[11] A. L. Dallapiccola (30 September 2006). Indian love poetry. Interlink Books. p. 90.

[12] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1979). Torquato Tasso: A Play. Manchester University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7190-0720-0.

[13] John Platts (1826). A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions. Sherwood, Jones & Company. p. 674.

[14] Encyclopaedia Britannica: First Published in 1768 by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1973. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-85229-173-3.

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