1566 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1566.

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Events

• September 2 – The stage collapses during a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Three deaths are caused. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat."[1]
• Ordonnance of Moulins in France prohibits writing, printing or selling of defamatory books and requires all books published to carry a seal of state approval.[2]

New books

Prose

• Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle – first printing, at Frankfurt)[3]
• Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
• François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) – Histoires tragiques begins publication)
• Diego de Landa – Relación de las cosas de Yucatán[4]
• William Painter – Palace of Pleasure
• The Flower Triod (Триод Цветни)

Drama

• George Gascoigne – Supposes (translation into English prose from Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn in London)
  • (with Francis Kinwelmersh) – Jocasta (translation from Lodovico Dolce's Giocasta, a version of Euripides' The Phoenician Women, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn)
• Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of Inner Temple in London)

Poetry

• See 1566 in poetry

Births

• September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)
• Unknown date – John Hoskins, English poet (died 1638)

Deaths

• January 6 – Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)[5]
• March – António de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
• April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1524)
• July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)[6]
• October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
• unknown date – Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)[7]

References

1. Nichols, John (1823). The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth (PDF). 1 (New ed.). London.
2. Pottinger, David Thomas (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 58. OCLC 7385496598.
3. Y Cymmrodor. Cymmrodorion Society. 1906. p. 45.
4. Stephen D. Houston; Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos; David Stuart (2001). The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8061-3204-4.
5. Eric Nicholson (17 September 2016). Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Taylor & Francis. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-317-00696-1.
6. Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-313-30574-0.
7. Emil Gerhard (1930). Beiträge zur Geschichte einiger Solaneen: Atropa Belladonna, Hyoscyamus niger, Datura Stramonium, Mandragora, Capsicum annuum, Physalis Alkekengi und Physalis somnifera L. (in German). Verlag nicht ermittelbar.