1562 in literature

none thumb | right | alt=Ornate black-and-white title page of Jerónimo Zurita’s Anales de la Corona de Aragón, featuring the coat of arms of Aragon and decorative figures, published in 1562. | Title page of Jerónimo Zurita’s Anales de la Corona de Aragón, published in Zaragoza in 1562. 1562 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562. Events January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/gorboduc.html Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox 2007-11-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20070917205947/http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/gorboduc.html 2007-09-17 dead July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.Derek Jones Censorship: A World Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=gDqsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1573 December 2001 Routledge 978-1-136-79864-1 1573 New books Prose Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries), volumes V and VI Melchior Cano – De Locis theologicis (posthumously published) Petrus Ramus – Grammaire française Richard Smyth – De Missa Sacrificio Drama Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc Nicholas Udall? - Jacke Jugeler Poetry Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Births January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)R Horn Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates 1867 640 January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621) January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632) March – Francis Johnson, English Separatist theologian and polemicist (died 1618)Scott Culpepper Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence: The Bishop of Brownism's Life, Writings, and Controversies https://books.google.com/books?id=YJ6QtrQQengC&pg=PA14 2011 Mercer University Press 978-0-88146-238-8 14 March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)Jacob Gretser August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631) November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)Jo Eldridge Carney Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=4TBFjimrHtQC&pg=PA361 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30574-0 361 Unknown dates Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613) Constable, Henry 6 Gosse Edmund William Edmund Gosse 982 1 Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619) Francis Godwin, English writer and bishop (died 1633) Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631) Deaths July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480) September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)Elsie Anne McKee Katharina Schütz Zell the Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-century Reformer 1 Brill 1999 222-226 November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)Peter G. Bietenholz Thomas Brian Deutscher Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=PA157 1 January 2003 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-8577-1 157 November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)McNair Philip 3 1967 Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy https://archive.org/details/petermartyrinita0000mcna registration Oxford Clarendon 849189667 Unknown dates Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480) Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519) Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494) References