Overview of the events of 1644 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.
Events
- April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.
- November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.
- December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.
- The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).
New books
Prose
- John Milton
- Areopagitica (tract against censorship)
- Of Education
- Roger Williams – The Bloody Tenet of Persecution
- Francisco de Quevedo
- Vida de Marco Bruto
- Vida de San Pablo Apóstol
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – Vida del santo padre y gran siervo de Dios el beato Francisco de Borja
- René Descartes – Principia Philosophiae
- Marin Mersenne – Cogitata physico-mathematica
- Evangelista Torricelli – Opera geometrica
- Giulio Strozzi (editor) – Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi romana (published in Venice; a tribute to Anna Renzi, the "first diva")
Drama
- Lope de Vega – Fiestas del Santísimo Sacramento
- Pierre Corneille – Le Menteur
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Virtue's Triumph
Births
- August 6 – Louise de la Vallière, French royal mistress, subject of a Dumas novel (died 1710)
- October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French memoirist (died 1724)
- Unknown dates
- Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉), Japanese poet (died 1694)
- Elinor James, English pamphleteer (died 1719)
Deaths
- January 30 – William Chillingworth, English religious controversialist (born 1602)
- March 5 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (born 1615)
- March 8 – Xu Xiake (徐霞客), Chinese travel writer and geographer (born 1587)
- September 7 – Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, Italian historian (born 1579)
- September 8 – Francis Quarles, English poet (born 1592)
- November 10 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1579)
- November 21 – Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Czech lawyer and writer (born 1580)
References
- "The Old Globe Theater History and Timeline". Retrieved 2012-10-16.
- ^ Kekewich, Margaret (1994). Princes and peoples : France and British Isles, 1620-1714 : an anthology of primary sources. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University. p. 2. ISBN 9780719045738.
- Greengrass, M. (2004). "Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29945. Retrieved 2013-10-25. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780674475373.
- Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780802074393.
- Danilo Capecchi (11 May 2012). History of Virtual Work Laws: A History of Mechanics Prospective. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 481. ISBN 978-88-470-2056-6.
- John Whenham (1982). Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi. UMI Research Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-8357-1313-9.
- Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27
- Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
- The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.
- John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.
- Baker, Christopher (2002). Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600-1720 : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780313308277.