1584 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.

Events

• Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.^[1]
• London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).^[2]

New books

Prose

• Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)^[3]
• John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)^[4]
• James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
• David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)^[5]
• Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
• Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
• Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)

Drama

• 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) – Fidele and Fortunio
• Robert Wilson (attributed) – The Three Ladies of London

Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

• Thomas Watson – Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love (publication)

Births

• May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
• August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
• September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
• December 16 – John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
• unknown dates
  • Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)^[6]
  • Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)

Deaths

• February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)^[7]
• March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
• June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)^[8]
• July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
• August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)^[9]
• November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)^[10]
• unknown dates
  • Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
  • Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
  • Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)^[11]

Notes and References

1. [Edmund Kerchever Chambers|Chambers, E. K.]
2. Book: Mullan, John. Anonymity. London. Faber. 2007. 978-0-571-19514-5. 141.
3. Book: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England, 1558-1603. 2009. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-7546-6373-7. 261. en.
4. Book: Nicholas Clulee. John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. 15 February 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-18306-5. 306. en.
5. Book: Caradoc (of Llancarvan). The Historie of Cambria. 1969. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
6. Book: William Worthen Appleton. Beaumont and Fletcher. 1956. CUP Archive. 9=.
7. Book: Charles Dudley Warner. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII. 1 July 2008. Cosimo, Inc.. 978-1-60520-248-8. 231.
8. Jacob Soll, The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p.26 https://books.google.com/books?id=vVjru_uV_hoC&dq=J%C3%A1nos+Zs%C3%A1mboky&pg=PA25
9. Book: Timperley (C. H.). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations. 1839. Johnson. 380.
10. Book: Journal of Theological Studies. 1914. Clarendon Press. 53. en.
11. Book: Clarence A. Liederbach. Mexico's Bishops. 1977. Bona Ventura Press. 74.