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1566 literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1566.
Events
September 2 – The stage collapses during a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Three deaths are caused. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat."https://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N12549703.pdf PDF John Nichols (printer) John Nichols The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth New 1823 1 London
Ordonnance of Moulins in France prohibits writing, printing or selling of defamatory books and requires all books published to carry a seal of state approval.Pottinger David Thomas The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791 https://books.google.com/books?id=WzQZAAAAIAAJ 1958 Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass. 7385496598 58
New books
Prose
Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle – first printing, at Frankfurt)Y Cymmrodor https://books.google.com/books?id=alMrAAAAIAAJ 1906 Cymmrodorion Society 45
Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) – Histoires tragiques begins publication)
Diego de Landa – Relación de las cosas de YucatánStephen D. Houston Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos David Stuart The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing https://books.google.com/books?id=CBJsodSAEOsC&pg=PA29 2001 University of Oklahoma Press 978-0-8061-3204-4 29
William Painter – Palace of Pleasure
The Flower Triod (Триод Цветни)
Drama
George Gascoigne – Supposes (translation into English prose from Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn in London)
(with Francis Kinwelmersh) – Jocasta (translation from Lodovico Dolce's Giocasta, a version of Euripides' The Phoenician Women, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn)
Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of Inner Temple in London)
Poetry
See 1566 in poetry
Births
September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)
Unknown date – John Hoskins, English poet (died 1638)
Deaths
January 6 – Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)Eric Nicholson Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater https://books.google.com/books?id=q9EYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT164 17 September 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-00696-1 164
March – António de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1524)
July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)Jo Eldridge Carney Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=4TBFjimrHtQC&pg=PA194 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30574-0 194
October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
unknown date – Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)Emil Gerhard Beiträge zur Geschichte einiger Solaneen: Atropa Belladonna, Hyoscyamus niger, Datura Stramonium, Mandragora, Capsicum annuum, Physalis Alkekengi und Physalis somnifera L. https://books.google.com/books?id=Uy8VAQAAIAAJ 1930 Verlag nicht ermittelbar de
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