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1617 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1617.

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Events

  • March 4Shrovetide riot of the London apprentices damages the Cockpit Theatre. Impresario Christopher Beeston rebuilds it, and christens it the Phoenix for its rebirth, perhaps to designs by Inigo Jones.
  • The collected works of John Calvin are published posthumously in Geneva.
  • Martin Opitz founds the Fruitbearing Society (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft) at Weimar.
  • Alcemist–Hermeticist Robert Fludd begins the publication of his life's work, the Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, which in future years proliferates through multiple published Volumes, Tractates, Sections, and Portions, only to remain incomplete at the time of Fludd's death two decades later.
  • Two pseudonymous publications in the Joseph Swetnam anti-feminist controversy appear in 1617: Esther Hath Hang'd Haman by "Esther Sowernam", and The Worming of a Mad Dog by "Constantia Munda". Only Rachel Speght publishes her response to Swetnam, A Muzzle for Melastomus, under her own name.
  • Prose

  • Johann Valentin Andreae – Menippus
  • Invitatio Fraternitatis Christi (1617–18)
  • Miguel de CervantesLos trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (posthumous)
  • Robert FluddUtriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomus Primus (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 1)
  • Michael Maier
  • Silentium post clamores
  • Atalanta Fugiens (emblem book, illustrated by Matthias Merian)
  • Anthony MundaySurvay [sic] of London
  • Barnabe RichThe Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Cry
  • Drama

  • Giambattista AndreiniThe Penitent Magdalene published in Mantua
  • Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero – De Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo ("The Spanish Brabanter Jerolimo")
  • Ben Jonson
  • The Vision of Delight
  • Lovers Made Men
  • Thomas Middleton and William RowleyA Fair Quarrel published
  • Théophile de ViauLes Amours tragiques de Pyrame et Thisbé (Tragic Loves of Pyramus and Thisbe, performed 1621)
  • Births

  • February 8Jonas Moore, English mathematician and surveyor (died 1679)
  • May 22Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (died 1688)
  • July 13 (baptised)Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (died 1688)
  • July 31Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer (died 1684)
  • December 9 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (died 1657)
  • Unknown dates
  • Pierre Petit, French scholar, poet and Latin writer (died 1687)
  • Vavasor Powell, Welsh religious writer (died 1670)
  • Deaths

  • February 4Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (born c. 1540)
  • February 16Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian and translator (born 1549)
  • May 7
  • David Fabricius, German theologian (born 1564)
  • Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (born 1553)
  • August 13Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss theologian (born 1540)
  • September 25Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1548)
  • October 12Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer (born c. 1540)
  • November 6John Layfield, English theologian
  • November 10Barnabe Rich, English soldier and story-teller (born c. 1540)
  • December – Thomas Coryat, English travel writer (born c. 1577)
  • Unknown dates
  • Giovanni Botero, Italian political theorist and poet (born 1544)
  • Henry Perry, Welsh linguistic scholar and cleric (born c. 1560)
  • References

    1617 in literature Wikipedia


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