Events

• With the London theatres closed by the Puritan
  Puritan
  The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...
  
   regime during the English Civil War
  English Civil War
  The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...
  
  , closet drama
  Closet drama
  A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. A related form, the "closet screenplay," developed during the 20th century.-Form:...
  
   grows in prominence. Henry Burkhead's Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery is published in 1645. A tragedy on the 1641 rebellion in Ireland ("Lirenda" is an anagram
  Anagram
  An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...
  
  ), Burkhead presents the historical persons involved under pseudonyms: among others, the Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde PC was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the second of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom. He was the friend of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who appointeed him commander of the Cavalier forces in Ireland. From 1641 to 1647, he...
  
   is "Osiris," and Sir John Borlace in "Berosus."

New books

• Daniello Bartoli
  Daniello Bartoli
  thumb|right| Daniello Bartoli "Obiit Romae, die 13 Januarii, anno 1685, aet. 77"Daniello Bartoli was an Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer, celebrated by Francesco de Sanctis as the "Dante of Italian prose".-Ferrara:He was born in Ferrara. His father, Tiburzio was a chemist associated with...
  
   - L'huomo di lettere
  L'huomo di lettere
  .L'huomo di lettere difeso ed emendato by the Ferrarese Jesuit Daniello Bartoli is a two-part treatise on the man of letters bringing together material he had assembled as a teacher of rhetoric and a preacher...
  
  
• Hermann Busenbaum
  Hermann Busenbaum
  Hermann Busenbaum , Jesuit theologian, was born at Nottelen in Westphalia .He attained fame as a master of casuistry, and out of his lectures to students at Cologne grew his celebrated book Medulla theologiae moralis, facili ac perspicua methodo resolvens casus conscientiae...
  
   - Medulla theologiae moralis
• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.-Early life:...
  
  
  • De Causis Errorum ("On the Causes of Errors")
  • De Religione Laici ("On the Religion of the Laity")
• John Milton
  John Milton
  John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
  
  
  • Colasterion
    Colasterion
    Colasterion was published by John Milton with his Tetrachordon on 4 March 1645. The tract is a response to an anonymous pamphlet attacking the first edition of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...
    
    
  • Tetrachordon
    Tetrachordon
    Tetrachordon was published by John Milton with his Colasterion on 4 March 1645. The title symbolizes Milton's attempt to connect four passages of Biblical Scripture to rationalize the legalization of divorce.-Background:...
    
    
• Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness Cramond - A Lady's Legacy to her Daughters
• Alexander Ross
  Alexander Ross (writer)
  Alexander Ross was a prolific Scottish writer and controversialist. He was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Charles I.-Life:He was born in Aberdeen, and entered King's College, Aberdeen, in 1604. About 1616 he succeeded Thomas Parker in the mastership of the free school at Southampton, an appointment which...
  
  
  • Medicus Medicatus
  • The Philosophical Touchstone

Poetry

• John Milton - Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin
• Edmund Waller
  Edmund Waller
  Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...
  
   - Poems

Deaths

• August 28 - Hugo Grotius
  Hugo Grotius
  Hugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law...
  
  , polymath
  Polymath
  A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
  
   (born 1583)
• August 31 - Francesco Bracciolini
  Francesco Bracciolini
  Francesco Bracciolini was an Italian poet.He was born of a noble family in Pistoia in 1566. On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the academy there, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered the service of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to France...
  
  , Italian poet (born 1566)
• date unknown - William Lithgow, traveller and author, travel writer (born 1582)