1644 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.
Events
- April 15 â The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.[1]
- November 23 â The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicencâd Printing, to the Parlament of England.[2]
- December (end) â English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.[3]
- The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).
New books
Prose
- John Milton
- Areopagitica (tract against censorship)[2]
- Of Education
- Roger Williams â The Bloody Tenet of Persecution[4]
- Francisco de Quevedo
- Vida de Marco Bruto
- Vida de San Pablo Apóstol
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg â Vida del santo padre y gran siervo de Dios el beato Francisco de Borja
- René Descartes â Principia Philosophiae[5]
- Marin Mersenne â Cogitata physico-mathematica
- Evangelista Torricelli â Opera geometrica[6]
- Giulio Strozzi (editor) â Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi romana (published in Venice; a tribute to Anna Renzi, the "first diva")[7]
Drama
- Lope de Vega â Fiestas del SantÃsimo Sacramento
- Pierre Corneille â Le Menteur
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland â Virtue's Triumph[8]
Births
- August 6 â Louise de la Vallière, French royal mistress, subject of a Dumas novel (died 1710)
- October 2 â François-Timoléon de Choisy, French memoirist (died 1724)
- Unknown dates
- Matsuo BashÅ (æ¾å°¾ èè), Japanese poet (died 1694)
- Elinor James, English pamphleteer (died 1719)
Deaths
- January 30 â William Chillingworth, English religious controversialist (born 1602)[9]
- March 5 â Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (born 1615)[10]
- March 8 â Xu Xiake (å¾é客), Chinese travel writer and geographer (born 1587)
- September 7 â Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, Italian historian (born 1579)[11]
- September 8 â Francis Quarles, English poet (born 1592)[12]
- November 10 â LuÃs Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1579)
- November 21 â Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Czech lawyer and writer (born 1580)