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1560 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.
Events
August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith.Cochrane Arthur Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=8PdOggp1rN4C 5 February 2013 2003 Westminster John Knox Press Louisville 978-0-664-22694-7 The Scottish Confesion of Faith
unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.Daniel Fulco Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment https://books.google.com/books?id=in0JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 31 March 2016 BRILL 978-90-04-30805-3 39
New books
Prose
Geneva Bible (first full edition)
Giachem Bifrun (translator) – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
Thomas Churchyard – The Contention bettwyxte Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.
Drama
Jacques Grévin – Jules César
Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance)Alexandra Shepard Preston, Thomas (1537–1598) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22730 2013-10-01 10.1093/ref:odnb/22730
Poetry
See 1560 in poetry
Births
January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643)Walter Farquhar Hook An Ecclesiastical Biography: Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines https://books.google.com/books?id=_RTcLpxrnAMC&pg=PA25 1847 F. and J. Rivington 25
Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
Unknown dates
Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
probable
Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633)David M. Bergeron, "Munday, Anthony (bap. 1560, d. 1633)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2007 accessed 14 August 2013
Deaths
January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522)Malcolm Smith Joachim Du Bellay's Veiled Victim: With an Edition of the Xenia, Seu Illustrium Quorundam Nominum Allusiones https://books.google.com/books?id=nu9qb-_ZEKYC&pg=PA50 1974 Librairie Droz 978-2-600-03901-7 50
April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497)John L. Flood David J. Shaw Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560): Hellenist and Physician in Germany and Italy https://books.google.com/books?id=I0wIy91GTjwC&pg=PA148 1997 Librairie Droz 978-2-600-00207-3 148
July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520)Adam Puschman Georg Thym Johann Fischart Kaspar von Stieler Adam Puschman: Gründlicher bericht des deutschen meistergesangs. Erste aufl. (1571) https://books.google.com/books?id=OxPYQPqhMQMC 1891 M. Niemeyer=
Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher
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