1560 in literature

Geneva Bible

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.

Events

• August 27 – The Parliament of Scotland approves the Scots Confession of faith. ^[1]
• unknown date – Paolo Veronese completes his work on the interior decoration of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. ^[2]

New books

Prose

• Geneva Bible (first full edition)
• Giachem Bifrun (translator) – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ (New Testament in Putèr variety of Romansh language)s
• Thomas Churchyard – The ContentionbettwyxteChurchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
• Scots Confession , officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.

Drama

• Jacques Grévin – Jules César
• Thomas Preston – Cambises (possible date of first performance) ^[3]

Poetry

• See 1560 in poetry

Births

• January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator (died 1643) ^[4]
• Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor (died 1612)
• October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609)
• December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar (died 1627)
• Unknown dates
  • Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian (died 1650)
  • Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian (died 1620)
  • Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician (died in or before 1624)
• probable
  • Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin (died 1605)
  • Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist (died 1633) ^[5]

Deaths

• January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born c. 1522) ^[6]
• April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian (born 1483)
• April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian (born 1497) ^[7]
• July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer (date of birth unknown)
• September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born c. 1509)
• November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian (born 1494)
• December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet (born c. 1520) ^[8]
• Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher

References

1. Cochrane, Arthur (2003), "The Scottish Confesion of Faith", Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN   978-0-664-22694-7 , retrieved 5 February 2013
2. Daniel Fulco (31 March 2016). Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment. BRILL. p. 39. ISBN   978-90-04-30805-3.
3. Shepard, Alexandra (2004). "Preston, Thomas (1537–1598)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22730 . Retrieved 2013-10-01.(subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)
4. Walter Farquhar Hook (1847). An Ecclesiastical Biography: Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines. F. and J. Rivington. p. 25.
5. David M. Bergeron, "Munday, Anthony (bap. 1560, d. 1633)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2007 accessed 14 August 2013
6. Malcolm Smith (1974). Joachim Du Bellay's Veiled Victim: With an Edition of the Xenia, Seu Illustrium Quorundam Nominum Allusiones. Librairie Droz. p. 50. ISBN   978-2-600-03901-7.
7. John L. Flood; David J. Shaw (1997). Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560): Hellenist and Physician in Germany and Italy. Librairie Droz. p. 148. ISBN   978-2-600-00207-3.
8. Adam Puschman; Georg Thym; Johann Fischart; Kaspar von Stieler (1891). Adam Puschman: Gründlicher bericht des deutschen meistergesangs. Erste aufl. (1571). M. Niemeyer=.