1595 in literature

This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1595.

Events

• May 24 – The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
• December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
• unknown dates
• The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada) appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
• Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.

New books

Prose

• Mikalojus DaukÅ¡a – Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus
• Justus Lipsius – De militia romana
• Nicholas Remy – Daemonolatreiae libri tres
• Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous, written 1580–83) – An Apology for Poetry
• Vincentio Saviolo – His practise, in two bookes. (first manual of fencing in English)
• Fausto Veranzio – Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ published in Latin in Venice
• Joseph of Anchieta – Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil
• Anonymous (possibly Valens Acidalius) – Disputatio nova contra mulieres

Drama

• Anonymous – Locrine (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")
• Jakob Ayrer – Von der Erbauung Roms (Of the Building of Rome)
• Gervase Markham – The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
• Antoine de Montchrestien – Sophonisbe
• Robert Wilson? – The Pedlers Prophecie
• Approximate year
• William Alabaster, Roxana
• William Shakespeare, Richard II
• Romeo and Juliet
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry

• Barnabe Barnes – A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets
• Richard Barnfield – Cynthia
• Thomas Campion – Poemata
• George Chapman (anonymous) – Ovid's Banquet of Sense
• Gervase Markham – The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
• Robert Southwell (anonymous) – Saint Peter's Complaint
• Edmund Spenser
• Amoretti and Epithalamion ("written not long since")
• Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

Births

• March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
• before June – Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
• October 18 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (died 1655)
• December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
• Unknown dates
• Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663)
• Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676)
• Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish Jesuit writer and mystic (died 1658)

Deaths

• February – William Painter, English translator (born c. 1540)
• February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
• March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
• April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
• May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
• June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547)
• October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547)
• November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)

References