This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1595.
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Events
- May 24 – The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
- unknown dates
- The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada) appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
- Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.[1]
New books
Prose
- Mikalojus Daukša – Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus[2]
- Justus Lipsius – De militia romana[3]
- Nicholas Remy – Daemonolatreiae libri tres
- Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous, written 1580–83) – An Apology for Poetry[4]
- Vincentio Saviolo – His practise, in two bookes. (first manual of fencing in English)[5]
- Fausto Veranzio – Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ published in Latin in Venice[6]
Drama
- Anonymous – Locrine (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")[7]
- Jakob Ayrer – Von der Erbauung Roms (Of the Building of Rome)
- Gervase Markham – The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville[8]
- Antoine de Montchrestien – Sophonisbe
- Robert Wilson? – The Pedlers Prophecie
- Approximate year
Poetry
- Barnabe Barnes – A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets[9]
- Richard Barnfield – Cynthia
- Thomas Campion – Poemata
- George Chapman (anonymous) – Ovid's Banquet of Sense
- Gervase Markham – The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
- Robert Southwell (anonymous) – Saint Peter's Complaint
- Edmund Spenser
- Amoretti and Epithalamion ("written not long since")
- Colin Clouts Come Home Againe[10]
Births
- March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
- before June – Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
- October 18 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (died 1655)
- December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
- Unknown dates
- Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663)[11]
- Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676)
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish Jesuit writer and mystic (died 1658)
Deaths
- February – William Painter, English translator (born c. 1540)
- February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
- March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
- April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)[12]
- May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
- June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547)[13]
- October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547)
- November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)[14]
References
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