Wikify date August 2011 William Gace fl. 1580 , was an English translator. Gace matriculated as a sizar of Clare Hall, Cambridge , in November 1568, and proceeded B.A. in 1572 3. He was author of the following translations A Learned and Fruitefull Commentarie upon the Epistle of James the Apostle. Written in Latine by the learned Clerke, Nich. Hemminge and newly translated into English by W. G., 4to, London, 1577. Special and Chosen Sermons of D. Martin Luther collected out of his Writings. Englished by W. G., 4to, London, 1578 another edition, 8vo, London, 1581. A Guide unto godliness, moste worthy to bee followed of all true Christians. Written in Latin by John Rivius Englished by W. G., 8vo, London, 1579. A right comfortable Treatise conteining sundrye pointes of consolation for them that labour & are laden. Written by D. Martin Luther to Prince Friderik, Duke of Saxonie being sore sicke. Englished by W. Gace, 8vo, London, 1580. References reflist DNB wstitle Gace, William Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gace, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English translator DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gace, William Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category 16th century English people Category 16th century translators Category English translators Category People of the Tudor period Category Alumni of Clare Hall, Cambridge UK writer stub ... more details
chinesetext Shangqing is a town under the county level city of Guixi City Guixi , in the municipal region of Yingtan , Jiangxi JX . It is a small stop on a major railroad the Fuzhou branch line from the Yingtan junction on the Nanchang Shanghai line. Most visitors will be touring the nearby Daoist holy mountain Mount Longhu Longhushan . Cultural Interest Shangqing Town features Han Dynasty temples associated with Zhang Daoling , a founder of Daoism. One is mentioned in the beginning of the classic Yuan Dynasty novel Shuihu Zhuan , variously englished as Outlaws of the Marsh , Water Margin , All Men are Brothers , etc. See also Shangqing School Categories Category Geography of Jiangxi ru ... more details
File Alcoran de Mahomet 1647.jpg thumb L Alcoran de Mahomet , Andr du Ryer , 1647. L Alcoran de Mahomet was the third western translation of the Qur an , preceded by Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete and the translation by Mark of Toledo . The translation was made from Arabic language Arabic into French by Sieur du Ryer in 1647 . Two years later, in 1649 , Alexander Ross writer Alexander Ross translated http www.msgr.ca msgr 2 Koran 20 20Nativity 20 2002.htm it to English language English from French language French , and included the following title page The Alcoran of Mahomet, Translated out of Arabick into French. By the Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and Resident for the French King, at ALEXANDRIA. And Newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish Vanities. To which is prefixed, the Life of Mahomet, the Prophet of the Turks, and Author of the Alcoran. With a Needful Caveat, or Admonition, for them who desire to know what Use may be made of, or if there be danger in Reading the ALCORAN. See also List of translations of the Qur an External links QuranTranslations http www.msgr.ca msgr 2 Koran 20 20Nativity 20 2001.htm The full text of http www.archive.org details alcoranofmahomet00dury Ross s Translation in pdf Category Quran translations Islam stub ... more details
John Ashmore Floruit fl. 1621 , was the first who attempted a translation into English of selected odes of Horace . In 1621 he published Certain selected Odes of Horace Englished, and their Arguments annexed. To the translations are added a number of epigrams and anagrams. Samuel Pullein , in a copy of Latin elegiacs prefixed to the translations, is enthusiastic about his friend s achievement Flaccus adest, eadem mens est et earminis idem Sensus forma eadem est ingeniique decus. Many of the epigrams and anagrams are addressed to distinguished personages, such as Charles II of England Charles, Prince of Wales , George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham , and Sir Francis Bacon . In others the writer puns on the names of private friends. One epigram is addressed Ad insignem Poetam, D. Ben. Johnson. From many references throughout the book to the Fairfaxes and others, it appears that the author was a native of Ripon in Yorkshire. References reflist Cite DNB wstitle Ashmore, John Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . name Ashmore, John alternative names short description date of birth place of birth date of death place of death DEFAULTSORT Ashmore, John Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Category People from Ripon Category 17th century English people Category 17th century writers Category English translators ... more details
John Healey died 1610 was an English translator. Among scanty biographical facts, he was ill, according to a statement of his friend the printer Thomas Thorpe , in 1609, and was dead in the following year. Works To three of his translations Thorpe, the printer of Shakespeare s sonnets, prefixed dedications. His works are Philip Mornay, Lord of Plessis, his Teares. For the death of his Sonne. Unto his Wife, Charlotte Baliste. Englished by John Healey. London G. Eld , 1609. Healey dedicates this tract to my most honoured and constant friend, Maister John Coventry, with whom he has thus long sayled in a deepe darke sea of misfortune. The Discovery of a Newe World, or a Descripcon of the South Indyes hetherto unknowne. By an English Mercury. London, for Ed. Blount and W. Barrett, n.d. This was entered to Thomas Thorpe in the Stationers Register on 18 January 1609. It is a humorous version in English of Joseph Hall bishop Joseph Hall s satire Mundus alter et idem . Epictetus his Manuall And Cebes his Table. Out of the Greeke Originall by Jo. Healey. Printed for Th. Thorpe, 1610, 24mo. This contains a dedication by Th. Th. Thomas Thorpe to John Florio , who is said to have procured an impregnable protection for Healey s apprentises essay. A second edition appeared in 1616 printed by George Purslowe for Edward Blount , to which a version of Theophrastus s Characters, separately paged, was added. A dedication by Thorpe to the Earl of Pembroke takes the place of the dedication to Florio. St. Augustine of the Citie of God with the learned Commentarie of Jo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H., London George Eld , 1610, folio. The dedication by Thorpe to William, earl of Pembroke, speaks of Healey as dead, and apologises for consequent imperfections in the translation. A second edition, revised, was issued in 1620, with a new dedication by William Crashaw the father of the poet to Pembroke and his brother Philip. Healey followed the elaborate edition of Juan Luis Vives , translatin ... more details
For the New Zealand manufacturer tailor Swanndri infobox person name William Broome birth date 1689 birth place Haslington , Cheshire death date death year and age 1745 1689 death place Bath, Somerset nationality England English occupation poet, translator William Broome 1689 1745 was an England English poet and translator . He was born in Haslington , near Crewe , Cheshire and died in Bath, Somerset Bath . He was educated at Eton College Eton and Cambridge , entered the Church, and became rector of Sturston, Suffolk Sturston in Suffolk , and later Pulham in Norfolk and Eye, Suffolk Eye in Suffolk. He translated the Iliad in prose along with others, and was employed by Alexander Pope , whom he excelled as a Greek scholar, in translating the Odyssey , of which he Englished the 2nd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 18th, and 23rd books, catching the style of his master so exactly as almost to defy identification, and thus annoying him so as to earn a niche in The Dunciad . He also translated the Odes of Anacreon . He published verses of his own of very moderate poetical merit. References reflist Wikisource1911Enc Broome, William 1911 A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Broome, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1689 PLACE OF BIRTH Haslington , Cheshire DATE OF DEATH 1745 PLACE OF DEATH Bath, Somerset DEFAULTSORT Broome, William Category 1689 births Category 1745 deaths Category People from Haslington Category Old Etonians Category English poets ... more details
Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet 1563 &ndash 9 September 1637 , was a British politician. He was born the son of Francis Stradling of St. George, Bristol and adopted by a relative, Sir Edward Stradling. He inherited the family estate at St Donat s on the death of Sir Edward in 1609. Educated at Oxford BA 1584 , he was High Sheriff of Glamorgan Sheriff of Glamorgan for 1608 and 1620. He was knight ed in 1608 and created Baronet , of St Donats in the County of Glamorgan in 1611. He was then Member of Parliament for St Germans UK Parliament constituency St. Germans , Cornwall, 1623 1624 , Old Sarum UK Parliament constituency Old Sarum 1625 , and Glamorganshire UK Parliament constituency Glamorgan 1625 1626 . He founded Cowbridge Grammar School . He was author or translator of A Direction for travailers taken out of Epistola de Peregrinatione Italica for the behoofe of the Earl of Bedford , 1592 Two bookes of constancie Englished by J.S. , 1595 De vita et morte contemnenda libri duo , 1597 J. Stradlingi epigrammatum libri quatuor 1607 Beati Pacifici a divine poem 1623 and Divine Poems , 1625 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Gage they had a son and heir Sir Edward Stradling, 2nd Baronet Edward . References DNB Cite wstitle Stradling, John Rayment bt date March 2012 Use dmy dates date March 2012 Persondata name Stradling, John alternative names short description date of birth 1563 place of birth date of death 9 September 1637 place of death DEFAULTSORT Stradling, John Category 1563 births Category 1637 deaths Category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Category High Sheriffs of Glamorgan Category Welsh knights Category Baronets in the Baronetage of England Category Members of the Parliament of England pre 1707 Category Members of the pre 1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Category 16th century Welsh people Category 17th century Welsh people Category People of the Tudor period Category Founders of Welsh schools and colleges Category Stradling fa ... more details
chinesetext Lanhe is a town in Panyu District , in the municipal region of Guangzhou , Guangdong GD . Lanhe in the News The Town gained some notoriety in Aug 2009 when the head of its Communist Party of China CPC disciplinary committee, Liang Huiming, became the first official in the province to fall afoul of a nation wide Public Security Bureau Public Security crackdown on Driving under the influence East Asia drunk driving . The campaign began on August 15, to last until the National Day golden week holidays. On Wednesday night, Aug 19, Communist Liang was stopped and ordered to take a Breathalyzer breath test , which he initially refused, instead showing his Party card and told the traffic police officers to let him drive on. Liang admitted he d been drinking, but claimed that this was only to serve the people . Exiting the vehicle but still refusing to take the breath test, Liang made several calls on his Mobile phone cellphone , hoping to find a CPC comrade highly placed enough so as to be able to order the policemen to let him drive on. Liang was taken to a hospital and forced to take a blood test, which revealed him to have ingested a large amount of alcohol. He was taken into detention, a form of Chinese incarceration which, falling short of technical arrest, does not qualify the detainee for Habeas Corpus . The Southern Metroplis News of Guangzhou, the municipality which oversees Panyu District and is the capital of Guangdong, reported Liang s detention in its Friday, Aug 21 edition, and said that the CPC presumably at the level of its Panyu Branch at least intended disciplinary measures against him. Liang s misadventure was englished the next day in the South China Morning Post . ref Fiona Tam, South China Morning Post , China section, Township cadre caught driving drunk , 2009 Aug 22. ref Notes and references reflist coord missing Guangdong Category Panyu ... more details
Robert Andrews 1723 &ndash 1766 was an English Dissenter , known as a poet and translator of Virgil . Life He was descended from an eminent nonconformist family which had lived for nearly two centuries at Little Lever and at Rivington Hall , near Bolton , Lancashire . He received his theological education under Dr. Caleb Rotheram , at Kendal . He was chosen in 1747 minister of the presbyterian congregation at Lydgate, West Yorkshire Lydgate , in the parish of Kirkburton , Yorkshire . He continued to hold this charge till about 1753, when he became minister of Platt Chapel , a place of worship for Protestant dissenters in Rusholme , Lancashire. He stayed there about three years. He afterwards presided over a presbyterian congregation at Bridgnorth , where he remained till his health broke down and he became mad. Works In the earlier part of his life he sent to the press a criticism on the sermons of his friend, the Rev. John Holland, and some animadversions on Dr. John Brown essayist John Brown s Essays on the Characteristics. His Virgil Englished , 1766, was dedicated to the Hon. Booth Grey. It is in blank verse , and attempted to convey the sense of Virgil line for line. This was a rare book, printed by John Baskerville . Another work of his, called Eidyllia , is a volume of poems, 1757, dedicated to the Hon. Charles Yorke . The preface contains a polemic on rhyme . References DNB wstitle Andrews, Robert Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Andrews, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1723 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1766 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Andrews, Robert Category 1723 births Category 1766 deaths Category English Dissenters Category English translators Category English poets ... more details
Orphan date January 2012 Wikify date July 2011 general improvements needed plus links William Fulwood fl. 1562 , was an author. Fulwood was a member of the Merchant Taylors Company . His first effort is entitled An Admonition to Elderton to leave the Toyes by hym begonne. It was printed by John Alde, and begins A supplication to Elderton for Leaches unlewdness Desiring him to pardon his manifest unrudeness. In 1563 Fullwood published The Castel of Memorie wherein is conteyned the restoryng, augmentyng, and conservyng of the Memorye and Remembraunce with the latest remedyes and best preceptes thereunto in any wise apperteyning Made by Gulielmus Gratarolus Bergomatis, Doctor of Artes and Phisike. Englished by Willyam Fulwod. This volume contains a dedication in verse to the Lord Robert Dudely, which states that the king of Bohemia has approved the book in its Latin form, and the late Edward VI in a French translation. The book contains many curious receipts for aiding the memory. A second edition appeared in 1573. In 1568 Fullwood published the work by which he is best known this is The Enimie of Idlenesse Teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose, and write all sorts of Epistles and Letters as well by answer, as otherwise. Set forth in English by William Fulwood, Marchant. The volume is dedicated in verse to the Master, Wardens, and Company of Marchant Tayllors, and became very popular, running through several editions. It is divided into four books. The first, with much original matter, contains translations from Cicero and the ancients in the second the translations are from Politian, Ficino, Merula, Pico della Mirandola, and other Italian scholars the third contains practical and personal letters, mainly original and in the fourth are six metrical love letters, besides prose specimens. In subsequent editions seven metrical letters are found and other augmentations. References reflist DNB wstitle Fulwood, William Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Personda ... more details
works are The praise of folie, Moriae encomium . . . by Erasmus ... Englished by Sir Thomas Chaloner ... Gilbert Cognatus and An homilie of Saint John Chrysostome ... Englished by T. C. 1544 . See The Chaloners ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Year nav topic 1678 literature The year 1678 in literature involved some significant events. Events Thomas Otway , escaping from an unhappy love affair, obtains a commission in the army. Printer Joseph Moxon becomes the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. New books John Bunyan The Pilgrim s Progress Ralph Cudworth The True Intellectual System of the Universe Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette Madame de la Fayette La Princesse de Cl ves published anonymously Sir Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Thomas Herbert Threnodia Carolina Thomas Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum Josiah King The Examination and Trial of Old Father Christmas Together with his Clearing by the Jury The Mowing Devil or, Strange News out of Hartford Shire , a woodcut showing what is alleged to be the first crop circle The Works of Geber, Englished by Richard Russell . Thomas Rymer The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered New drama John Banks playwright John Banks The Destruction of Troy Aphra Behn Sir Patient Fancy William Chamberlain Wits Led by the Nose, or a Poet s Revenge published John Dryden All for Love play All for Love The Kind Keeper Thomas d Urfey Trick for Trick Squire Old Sapp, or the Night Adventurers Edward Howard playwright Edward Howard The Man of Newmarket John Learned The Counterfeits The Rambling Justice Thomas Otway Friendship in Fashion Samuel Pordage The Siege of Babylon Edward Ravenscroft The English Lawyer adapted from George Ruggle s Latin play Ignoramus Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia adapted from Shakespeare s play Thomas Shadwell The History of Timon of Athens the Man Hater A True Widow Nahum Tate Brutus of Alba Poetry Anne Bradstreet Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning posthumously published Samuel Butler poet Samuel Butler Hudibras , Part 3 Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter Sj lens aandelige Sangoffer The Souls Spiritual Offering of Song Births January 10 Paul Gab ... more details
Year nav topic 1646 literature The year 1646 in literature involved some significant events. Events March 24 The King s Men playing company King s Men petition Parliament for three and a half years back pay this is despite the London theatres officially remaining closed through the middle 1640s. No details of their activities in these years survive. May 5 Martin Llewellyn s drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War , June 22 4. John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor. Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism by her brother, Blaise Pascal . New books Anonymous John Lilburne ? London s Liberty in Chains Discovered Anonymous John Lilburne? Vox Plebis, or the People s Outcry Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors Thomas Fuller Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician Sir John Suckling poet John Suckling An Account of Religion by Reason published New drama Pierre Corneille Th odore Jean de Rotrou C lie James Shirley The Triumph of Beauty masque Sir John Suckling poet John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea , collected plays, including The Sad One unfinished Poetry Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple Martin Lluelyn Men Miracles John Milton Poems Francis Quarles The Shepherds Oracle James Shirley Poems Henry Vaughan Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished Births March 19 Michael Kongehl , poet died 1710 July 1 Gottfried Leibniz , philosopher died 1716 July 20 Eus be Renaudot , theologian died 1720 probable John Mason poet John Mason , poet, preacher and hymn writer died 1694 Deaths August 19 Alexander Henderson theologian born c.1583 September 17 Erycius Puteanus , philologist and encyclopedist born 1574 October 23 David Wedderburn writer David Wedderburn , schoolmaster and author of textbooks born 1580 December 23 Fran ois Maynard , poet born ... more details
Year nav topic 1620 literature The year 1620 in literature involved some significant events. formerly 18apr07 See also 1619 in literature , 1620 other events of 1620 , 1621 in literature , list of years in literature . Events The Book of Psalmes Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers. Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London. Appearance of the second version of The Ballad of Chevy Chase . New books Francis Bacon philosopher Francis Bacon Novum Organum John Bainbridge astronomer John Bainbridge s translation of Ptolemy s De Planetarum Hypothesibus Standard Welsh Bible, translated by Bishop William Morgan Bible translator William Morgan , Richard Parry bishop Richard Parry and John Davies Mallwyd . Salomon de Caus Hortus Palatinus Thomas Rowlands The Night Raven New drama Anonymous Thomas Heywood ? Swetnam the Woman Hater published Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher playwright John Fletcher Philaster play Philaster published Thomas Dekker poet Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger The Virgin Martyr Ben Jonson News from the New World Discovered in the Moon masque Pan s Anniversary masque Thomas Middleton & William Rowley The World Tossed at Tennis masque Poetry main 1620 in poetry Births March 10 Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder , philologist and theologian died1667 died 1681 July 20 Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder Nikolaes Heinsius , poet and scholar October 31 John Evelyn , diarist d. 1706 November 10 Ninon de l Enclos , author and patron of the arts d. 1705 date unknown Alexander Brome , poet d. 1666 date unknown Lucy Hutchinson , biographer d. 1681 date unknown Marchamont Needham , journalist and pamphleteer d. 1678 probable Melchis dech Th venot , polymath died 1692 Deaths February 1 Mario di Calasio , author of a Hebrew concordance born 1550 February 19 Roemer Visscher , Dutch writer b. 1547 March 1 Thomas Campion , poet and composer b. 1567 date unknown Rich ... more details
One source date February 2012 No footnotes date February 2012 Dionysius Periegetes , literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, often Latinisation of names Latinized to Dionysius Periegeta was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek language Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style. His lifedates, and indeed his origins, are not known, but he is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian r. 117&ndash 138 CE , though some put him as late as the end of the 3rd century. The work enjoyed popularity in ancient times as a schoolbook. It was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus , and by the Philologist grammarian Priscian . There is a commentary by Eustathius of Thessalonica . References Edward Herbert Bunbury Ancient Geography , Vol. 2, p. 480 regards the author as flourishing from the reign of Nero 54&ndash 68 CE to that of Trajan 98&ndash 117 CE . Further reading Geographici Graeci minores ... 1. Dionysius Peri g tes Graece et Latine cum vetustis commentariis et interpretationibus ex recensione et cum annotatione Godofredi Bernhardy . Lipsiae Leipzig , 1828 edition by Gottfried Bernhardy . Geographici Graeci minores e codicibus recognovit prolegominis annotatione instruxit tabulis aeri incisis illustravit Carolus Mullerus ... 2. Orbus descriptio ... Parisiis Paris Didot, 1861 Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum v. 26 edition by Karl Wilhelm Ludwig M ller Carl M ller . These were reprinted Hildesheim Olms, 1974 ISBN 3 487 04910 4 v. 1 and ISBN 3 487 04911 2 v. 2 The surveye of the world, or, Situation of the Earth , Englished by T. Twine sic, i.e., Thomas Twyne . London, 1572 John Free Tyrocinium geographicum Londinense, or, The London geography, consisting of Dr. Free s Short lectures, compiled for the use of his pupils, to which is added by the editor, translated from the Greek into English blank verse, the Periegesis of Dionysius ... from the edition ... more details
Elijah Fenton 1683 1730 was an English poet, biographer and translator. ref cite DNB wstitle Fenton, Elijah ref Life Born in Shelton, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire Shelton now Stoke on Trent , and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge , ref Venn FNTN700E ref for a time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School . In 1707, Fenton published a book of poems. He later became tutor to Sir William Trumbull s son at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire and is now best known as the assistant of his neighbour, Alexander Pope , in English translations of Homer Fenton his translation of the Odyssey , of which he Englished the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books, catching the manner of his master so completely that it is hardly possible to distinguish between their work while thus engaged he published 1723 a successful tragedy, Marianne . His later contributions to literature were a Life of John Milton , and as an editor of Edmund Waller s Poems 1729 . He died on 16th of July 1730, and is buried in the churchyard of Stoke Parish Church, Stoke on Trent. There is a memorial to him on the wall of the church, with an epitaph by Alexander Pope . This reads poem To the memory of Elijah Fenton of Shelton in Staffordshire, who dyed at Easthampstead Anno 1730, aged forty seven years. In honour of his great integrity & Learning. William Trumbell Esq erected this monument. This modest stone what few vain marbles can May truly say, here lies an honest man A poet blest beyond the poets fate Whom heav n left sacred from the proud and great Foe to loud praise and friend to learned ease Content with science in the vale of peace Calmly he look d on either life & here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear From natur s temp rate feast rose satisfy d Thank d heav n that he had liv d and that he dy d. A. POPE poem References ODNBweb first Arthur last Sherbo id 9295 title Fenton, Elijah cite book author William W ... more details
Year nav topic 1590 music Events October 16 Carlo Gesualdo , Italian composer of madrigal music madrigal s, murders his wife and her lover. Year 1590 was the approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal music madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzasco Luzzaschi Luzzaschi , Monteverdi, Luca Marenzio Marenzio , Philippe de Monte Monte and others. The Serpent instrument serpent is invented by Canon Edm Guillaume in Auxerre, France it was a common instrument in Western European churches for the next several hundred years. Baldassare Donato becomes maestro di cappella at San Marco di Venezia St. Mark s in Venice , taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino . Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer, is engaged as string player at court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua . Emilio de Cavalieri , Italian composer, produces Tasso s Aminto , likely with his own music, for the Medici , at Carnival in Florence . Giovanni Gabrieli arranges the posthumous publication of works by his uncle Andrea Gabrieli , in Venice. Publications Giovanni Croce Mascarate piacevoli et ridicolose per il carnevale Giovanni Gabrieli publishes works in the cori spezzati style, in Venice. Orlande de Lassus , Dutch School music Franco Flemish composer, publishes Neue teutsche, unnd etliche frantz sische Ges ng , a collection of secular songs for six voices, in Munich note old German unnd spelling is correct Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his fifth book of mass music mass es, in Rome . Orazio Vecchi publishes a book of motet s for 10 voices, in Venice. Thomas Watson poet Thomas Watson The first sett, Of Italian Madrigalls Englished , published in London . Classical music Hans Leo Hassler Canzonette published in Nuremberg Claudio Monteverdi &ndash Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Ingegneri &ndash second book of Madrigal music madrigals a 5 published in Venice . Births July 3 Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana , singer, organis ... more details
Year nav topic2 1621 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation s poetry or literature for instance, Irish poetry Irish or French poetry France . Events Empty section date July 2010 Works published English poetry Great Britain John Ashmore translator John Ashmore , translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace , Englished and their Arguments Annexed ref name cocel Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0 19 860634 6 ref Richard Brathwaite Natures Embassie or, The Wilde Mans Measures ref name cocel Times Curtaine Drawne or, The Anatomie of Vanitie ref name cocel Francis Quarles , Hadassa or, The History of Queene Ester ref name cocel George Sandys , The First Five Books of Ovid s Metamorphoses Metamorphosis , published anonymously see also Ovid s Metamorphosis 1626 in poetry 1626 ref name cocel Rachel Speght , Mortalities Memorandum With a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner, reall in matter ref name cocel John Taylor poet John Taylor The Praise, Antiquity, and Commodity, of Beggery, Beggers and Begging ref name cocel Superbiae Flagellum or, The Whip of Pride ref name cocel George Wither , The Songs of the Old Testament , verses and music ref name cocel Lady Mary Wroth , The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania , partly in verse, written by Sir Philip Sidney s niece ref name cocel Other Th ophile de Viau , uvres po tiques , French poetry France Births Death years link to the corresponding year in poetry article Rupa Bhavani died 1721 in poetry 1721 , Indian poetry Indian , Kashmiri poetry Kashmiri language poet Jane Cavendish died 1669 in poetry 1669 , English poetry English poet and playwright Jean de la Fontaine died 1695 in poetry 1695 , French poetry French poet and fable writer Andrew Marvell died 1678 in poetry 1678 , English metaphysical poet and parliamentarian Jan Andrzej Morsztyn died 1693 in poetry 1693 , Polish poet and member of the noble class ... more details
Year nav topic2 1646 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation s poetry or literature for instance, Irish poetry Irish or French poetry France . Events Clergyman, poet, and dramatist Jasper Mayne made a Doctor of Divinity Works published Guillaume Colletet , Le Banquet des Po tes Richard Crashaw , Steps to the Temple Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses expanded edition 1648 in poetry 1648 ref name cocel Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0 19 860634 6 ref Martin Lluelyn , Men Miracles With other poemes ref name cocel John Milton , Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin see below James Shirley , Poems ref name cocel Sir John Suckling poet John Suckling , Fragmenta Aurea , works, including letters, poems and plays ref name cocel Henry Vaughan , Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished ref name cocel George Wither , Opobalsamum Anglicanum ref name cocel Milton s Poems Image 1645 Titlepage.JPG right 350px thumb Titlepage to 1645 Poems , with frontispice depicting Milton surrounded by four muses John Milton L Allegro Milton s 1645 Poems Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos d at several times published this year, although the book states 1645 ref name cocel the volume s Book frontispiece frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall illustrator William Marshall , under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance see revised edition, 1673 in poetry 1673 the volume includes these poems On the Morning of Christ s Nativity A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 Psalm 136 The Passion Milton The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630 it connects Crucifixion of Jesus Christ s Crucifixion with his Annunciation Incarnation linked to two other poems of Milton On the Morning of Christ s Nativity and Upon the Circumcision On Time Upon the Circumcision A ... more details
James Sandford or Sanford floruit 1567 was an English author, known as a translator of Epictetus and Cornelius Agrippa . According to Sidney Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography , he may have been a native of Somerset , and uncle or cousin to John Sandford poet John Sandford . Works In 1567 he published two translations with Henry Bynneman , the London printer, from Plutarch , ref Amorous and Tragicall Tales of Plutarch, whereunto is annexed the Hystorie of Cariclea and Theagines with sentences of the philosophers London, 1567. ref dedicated to Sir Hugh Paulet of Hinton St. George , Somerset, and another of Epictetus, ref The Manuell of Epictetus, translated out of Greeke into French and now into English , London, 1567. ref dedicated to Elizabeth I of England . Two years later there followed Henrie Cornelius Agrippa, of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, englished by Ja. San., Gent. , London, 1569 by Henry Wykes it was dedicated to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk a few verses are included. In 1573 there appeared The Garden of Pleasure, contayninge most pleasante tales, worthy deeds, and witty sayings of noble princes and learned philosophers moralized , done out of Italian into English, London by H. Bynneman , 1573 this was dedicated to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester . In an appendix are Italian proverbs. The work was reissued ref Houres of Recreation or Afterdinners, which may aptly be called the Garden of Pleasure . . . newly perused, corrected and enlarged , London by H. Bynneman , 1576. ref in the dedication to Sir Christopher Hatton , Sandford repeats some prognostications of disaster for 1588. An appendix collects poems dedicated to the queen. Mirror of Madnes, translated from the French, or a Paradoxe, maintayning madnes to be most excellent, done out of French into English by Ja. San. Gent. London Tho. Marshe , was also published in 1576 it resembles Erasmus s Praise of Folly . A few verses are included. Sandford was further ... more details
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