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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1595.

Events

  • May 24 – The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
  • December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
  • unknown dates
  • The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada) appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
  • Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.

New books

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Prose

  • Mikalojus Daukša – Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus
  • Justus Lipsius – De militia romana
  • Nicholas Remy – Daemonolatreiae libri tres
  • Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous, written 1580–83) – An Apology for Poetry
  • Vincentio Saviolo – His practise, in two bookes. (first manual of fencing in English)
  • Fausto Veranzio – Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ published in Latin in Venice
  • Joseph of Anchieta – Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil
  • Anonymous (possibly Valens Acidalius) – Disputatio nova contra mulieres

Drama

  • Anonymous – Locrine (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")
  • Jakob Ayrer – Von der Erbauung Roms (Of the Building of Rome)
  • Gervase Markham – The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
  • Antoine de Montchrestien – Sophonisbe
  • Robert Wilson? – The Pedlers Prophecie
  • Approximate year
  • William Alabaster, Roxana
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry

  • Barnabe Barnes – A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets
  • Richard Barnfield – Cynthia
  • Thomas Campion – Poemata
  • George Chapman (anonymous) – Ovid's Banquet of Sense
  • Gervase Markham – The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
  • Robert Southwell (anonymous) – Saint Peter's Complaint
  • Edmund Spenser
  • Amoretti and Epithalamion ("written not long since")
  • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

Births

  • March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
  • before June – Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
  • October 18 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (died 1655)
  • December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
  • Unknown dates
  • Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663)
  • Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676)
  • Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish Jesuit writer and mystic (died 1658)

Deaths

  • February – William Painter, English translator (born c. 1540)
  • February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
  • March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
  • April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
  • May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
  • June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547)
  • October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547)
  • November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)

References