1571 in literature
Overview of the events of 1571 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1571.
Events
- October 7 – Naval Battle of Lepanto: Miguel de Cervantes's left arm is rendered useless; Venetian playwright Luigi Pasqualigo commands a galleon.
- unknown dates
- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
- First printing in the Irish language, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney in Dublin.[1]
- Laurentian Library in Florence opens to scholars.[2]
- Edict of Gaillon in France places enforcement of censorship laws with the state Chancellor's office instead of the University of Paris.[3]
- A tidal wave affects parts of Lincolnshire, England. It would be the subject of Jean Ingelow's narrative poem "The High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" (c.1883).[4]
New books
Prose
- François de Belleforest – La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")
- Bishop John Jewel – Second Book of Homilies
- Alistair mac Riean -- "Ye Historie of Thomas Sincaet, a Pyrate."
- Alonso de Molina
Drama
- Richard Edwards – Damon and Pythias
Poetry
- See 1571 in poetry
Deaths
- May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (born 1511)
- May 29 – Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran theologian (born 1514)
- July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)
- November 24 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech poet and translator (born 1523)
- December 28 – John Hales, English writer and administrator (born c. 1516)
- Unknown dates
- Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (born c. 1505)
- Bartolomeo Maranta, Italian literary theorist (born 1500)
- Andrés de Olmos, Spanish grammarian (born c. 1485)
References
- ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 371.
- ^ Diana Gisolfi; Staale Sinding-Larsen (1998). The Rule, the Bible, and the Council: The Library of the Benedictine Abbey at Praglia. College Art Association. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-295-97661-7.
- ^ Pottinger, David Thomas (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 59. OCLC 7385496598.
- ^ William White (of Sheffield.) (1872). History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, and the City and Diocese of Lincoln: Comprising a General Survey of the County : and Separate Historical, Statistical and Topographical Descriptions of All the Wapentakes, Hundreds, Sokes, Boroughs ... W. White. p. 21.
