1566 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1566.

Events

• September 2 – The stage collapses during a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Three deaths are caused. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat."^[1]
• Ordonnance of Moulins in France prohibits writing, printing or selling of defamatory books and requires all books published to carry a seal of state approval.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle – first printing, at Frankfurt)^[3]
• Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
• François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) – Histoires tragiques begins publication)
• Diego de Landa – Relación de las cosas de Yucatán^[4]
• William Painter – Palace of Pleasure
• The Flower Triod (Триод Цветни)

Drama

• George Gascoigne – Supposes (translation into English prose from Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn in London)
  • (with Francis Kinwelmersh) – Jocasta (translation from Lodovico Dolce's Giocasta, a version of Euripides' The Phoenician Women, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn)
• Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of Inner Temple in London)

Poetry

• See 1566 in poetry

Births

• September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)
• Unknown date – John Hoskins, English poet (died 1638)

Deaths

• January 6 – Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)^[5]
• March – António de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
• April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1524)
• July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)^[6]
• October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
• unknown date – Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Nichols, John . John Nichols (printer)

   . The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth . PDF . John Nichols (printer) . New . 1823 . 1 . London.

2. Book: Pottinger, David Thomas. The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791. 1958. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.. 7385496598. 58.
3. Book: Y Cymmrodor. 1906. Cymmrodorion Society. 45.
4. Book: Stephen D. Houston. Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos. David Stuart. The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing. 2001. University of Oklahoma Press. 978-0-8061-3204-4. 29.
5. Book: Eric Nicholson. Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. 17 September 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-00696-1. 164.
6. Book: Jo Eldridge Carney. Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. 2001. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-30574-0. 194.
7. Book: Emil Gerhard. Beiträge zur Geschichte einiger Solaneen: Atropa Belladonna, Hyoscyamus niger, Datura Stramonium, Mandragora, Capsicum annuum, Physalis Alkekengi und Physalis somnifera L.. 1930. Verlag nicht ermittelbar. de.