1563 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1563.
Events
- August – Michel de Montaigne writes a long letter to his father, describing the death of his friend Étienne de La Boétie.[1]
New books
Prose
- Yosef Caro – Shulchan Aruch (Set Table, also known as Code of Jewish Law)
- John Foxe – Actes and Monuments (known later as Foxe's Book of Martyrs)
- Richard Grafton – Abridgement of the Chronicles of England
- Garcia de Orta – Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India
- Pierino Belli – De re militari et de bello (On military matters and on war)
- Francesco Cattani da Diacceto – Opera omnia (Basle)
Poetry
- Barnaby Googe – Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets
Births
- January 19 – Leonhard Hutter, German Lutheran theologian (died 1616)
- January 30 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch Calvinist theologian (died 1641)
- Unknown dates
- Michael Drayton, English poet (died 1631)
- Pierre Matthieu, French poet and dramatist (died 1621)
- Robert Naunton, English politician and historian (died 1635)
- Joshua Sylvester, English poet (died 1618)
- Clemens Timpler, German philosopher (died 1624)
Deaths
- May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, author of first printed book in Lithuanian (born 1510)
- August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher (born 1530)
- November – John Bale, English historian (born 1495)
- December 29 – Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (born 1515)
- Probable year – Arthur Brooke, English poet (birth year not known)
- Approximate year – William Baldwin, English writer, editor and theatrical director (born c. 1515)
References
- ^ Denis Hollier; R. Howard Bloch (1994). A new history of French literature. Harvard University Press. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-0-674-61566-3. Retrieved 15 April 2010.