1651 in literature
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The year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher LoveChristopher LoveChristopher Love was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate of Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War. In 1651 he was executed by the government, after it was discovered that he had been in correspondence with the exiled Stuart court...
, whose sermons were later published.
New books
- Noah BiggsNoah BiggsNoah Biggs was an English medical reformer and alchemical writer of the middle of the seventeenth century. In his Chymiatrophilos, mataeotechnia medicinae praxes: The Vanity of the Craft of Physick, from 1651, he attacked pretentious and quack medical theories of his time. He also implied that...
- Chymiatrophilos, mataeotechnia medicinae praxes: The Vanity of the Craft of Physick - William Bosworth - The Chaste and Lost Lovers
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryRoger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryRoger Boyle redirects here. For others of this name, see Roger Boyle Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery was a British soldier, statesman and dramatist. He was the third surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and Richard's second wife, Catherine Fenton. He was created Baron of Broghill on...
- Parthenissa (first section) - William Cartwright - Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems
- Mary Cary (Rande) - The Little Horn's Doom and Downfall and A New and More Exact Map of the New Jerusalem's Glory
- Marin le Roy de GombervilleMarin le Roy de GombervilleMarin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville was a French poet and novelist.He was born at Paris, and at fourteen he produced a volume of poetry. At twenty he wrote a Discours sur l'histoire and at twenty-two a pastoral, La Charité, which is really a novel...
- Jeune Alcidiane - Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
- LeviathanLeviathan (book)Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil — commonly called simply Leviathan — is a book written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651. Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan... - John MiltonJohn MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
- Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio... - Filip Stanislavov - AbagarAbagarAbagar is a breviary by the Bulgarian Roman Catholic Bishop of Nikopol Filip Stanislavov printed in Rome in 1651. It is regarded as the first printed Bulgarian book...
, first printed book in modern BulgarianBulgarian languageBulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the... - Anna WeamysAnna WeamysAnna Weamys, sometimes referred to as Anne Weamys was an English author. Little is known of her life, but Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia , which appeared under the name 'Mrs A...
- A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia - Sir Henry WottonHenry WottonSir Henry Wotton was an English author and diplomat. He is often quoted as saying, "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." -Life:The son of Thomas Wotton , brother of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, and grandnephew of the diplomat...
- Reliquiae Wottonianiae (posthumous).
Published plays
- William Cartwright
- The Lady Errant
- The Ordinary
- The Siege, or Love's Convert
- Thomas RandolphThomas Randolph (poet)Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist. He was baptized on 18 June 1605 and was the uncle of American colonist William Randolph.-Education:...
(attributed to) - Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery (adapted from AristophanesAristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
' PlutusPlutus (play)Plutus is an Ancient Greek comedy by the playwrightAristophanes, first produced c. 388 BC. A political satire on contemporary Athens, it features the personified god of wealth Plutus...
) - Leonard Willan - Astraea, or True Love's Mirror (adapted from Honoré D'UrféHonoré d'UrféHonoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer.- Life :...
's L'Astrée)
Poetry
- Sir William DavenantWilliam DavenantSir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
- Gondibert (second impression) - Henry VaughanHenry VaughanHenry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...
- Olor Iscanus ("Swan of Usk")
Births
- April 6 - André DacierAndré DacierAndré Dacier , Latin Andreas Dacerius, was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus' De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book work.- Biography:Dacier was born at Castres in upper...
, classical scholar (died 1722) - August 6 - François FénelonFrançois FénelonFrançois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon , was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer...
, theologian (died 1715) - October 24 - Jean de La ChapelleJean de La ChapelleJean de La Chapelle was a French writer and dramatist.Chapelle was born at Bourges, France. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1688...
, - November 12 (?) - Sor JuanaSor JuanaSor Juana Inés de la Cruz , fully Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain...
, poet (died 1695)
Deaths
- October 7 - Jacques SirmondJacques SirmondJacques Sirmond was a French scholar and Jesuit.Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom; having been a novice at Verdun and then at Pont-Mousson, he entered into the order on the 26 July 1576...
, scholar (born 1559) - December 14 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (born 1582)
- date unknown
- Giacinto Andrea CicogniniGiacinto Andrea CicogniniGiacinto Andrea Cicognini was an Italian playwright and librettist, the son of poet and playwright Jacopo Cicognini.Cicognini was born in Florence. In 1627, he graduated from the University of Pisa, and he lived in Florence from 1640 to 1645 where he have legal advice to the poet and playwright...
, poet and librettist (born 1606) - Adho DurasoAdho DurasoAdho Duraso was a famous Rajasthani poet of medieval era. He was from the Charan family of the Indian state Rajasthan-Earli Life:...
, Rajasthani poet (born c.1550) - Henry RiceHenry Rice (writer)Henry Rice was a Welsh writer and gentleman at the court of King Charles I.-Life:Rice was part of the Rice family from Wales that included Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas amongst its members - Rice was his great-great-grandfather...
, courtier and writer (born c.1585)
- Giacinto Andrea Cicognini