1563 in literature

1563 in literature

Events

*August - Michel de Montaigne writes a long letter to his father, describing the death of his friend Étienne de La Boétie.

New books

*John Foxe - "Foxe's Book of Martyrs"
*Richard Grafton - "Abridgement of the Chronicles of England"
*Garcia de Orta - "Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India"

Poetry

*Barnaby Googe - "Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets"

Births

*January - Leonhard Hutter, theologian (d. 1616)
*January 30 - Franciscus Gomarus, theologian (d. 1641)
*"date unknown"
**Pierre Matthieu, poet and dramatist (d. 1621)
**Joshua Sylvester, poet (d. 1618)

Deaths

*May 21 - Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510)
*August 18 - Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher (b. 1530)
*November - John Bale, historian (b. 1495)
*December 29 - Sebastian Castellio, theologian (b. 1515)
*"probable" - Arthur Brooke, poet


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