1643 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.

Events

May/June â RenÃ© Descartes, having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.^[1]
June 16 â The Parliament of England issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press â the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
August 1 â The first of Milton's divorce tracts is published, anonymously and unlicensed.
unknown dates
- Cardinal Mazarin opens the BibliothÃ¨que Mazarine in Paris to scholars.^[2]
- The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop BrynjÃ³lfur Sveinsson.
- Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem â the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.

Sir Thomas Browne â Religio Medici (first "authorized" edition, after two unauthorized in the previous year)
Sir Kenelm Digby â Observations Upon Religio Medici
Philip Hunton â A Treatise of Monarchie
John Milton â Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Roger Williams â A Key into the Language of America
Pedro Agerre (Axular) â Gero

February 9 â Sidney Godolphin, English poet (born 1610)
April 4 â Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (born 1583)
April 12 â Nicolaus Hunnius, German theologian (born 1585)
April 20 â Christoph Demantius, German poet and composer (born 1567)
November 29 â William Cartwright, English poet, dramatist and cleric (born 1611)
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- Abraham Azulai, Moroccan-born Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
- Thomas Master, English poet, translator and cleric (born 1603)
- Pedro de OÃ±a, Chilean poet (born 1570)