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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1556
.
Events
Unknown dates
The first
printing press
in
India
is introduced by
Jesuits
at
Saint Paul's College, Goa
.
[1]
The first written evidence of
Yakshagana
dance-drama is found on an inscription at the
Lakshminarayana Temple, Hosaholalu
in India.
[2]
Augustus, Elector of Saxony
, establishes a royal state library in
Dresden
, predecessor of the
Saxon State and University Library Dresden
.
[3]
New books
Prose
Georg Bauer
–
De re metallica
John Ponet
–
A Short Treasure of Politic Power
Poetry
Pierre de Ronsard
–
Les Hymnes
Births
March 7
–
Guillaume du Vair
, French lawyer and philosopher (died
1621
)
April 27
–
François Béroalde de Verville
, French novelist and poet (died
1626
)
July 25
(baptised) –
George Peele
, English dramatist and poet (died
1596
)
August 10
–
Philipp Nicolai
, German poet and composer (died
1608
)
November 15
–
Jacques Davy Duperron
, French poet, cardinal and politician (died
1618
)
November 25
(baptised) –
John Heminges
, English actor and editor of the
First Folio
(died
1630
)
[4]
Unknown date
–
John Paul Nazarius
, Italian theologian (died
1645
)
Deaths
April 26
–
Valentin Friedland
, German scholar and teacher (born
1490
)
May 7
–
Hieronymus Andreae
, German printer and publisher (date of birth unknown)
July 31
–
Ignatius of Loyola
, Spanish theologian, founder of the Jesuits (born
1491
)
October 21
–
Pietro Aretino
, Italian satirist (born
1492
)
[5]
October 31
–
Johannes Sleidanus
, Luxembourgeois historian (born
1506
)
November 14
–
Giovanni della Casa
, Florentine poet (born
1503
)
December 23
–
Nicholas Udall
, English dramatist (born
1504
)
[6]
Unknown dates
Fuzûlî
, Ottoman poet and philosopher (born c.1483)
Oddur Gottskálksson
, Icelandic translator (born 1514/1515)
[7]
References
^
Geoffrey C. Gunn (2003).
First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500 to 1800
. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 87.
ISBN
978-0-7425-2662-4
.
^
Martha Bush Ashton, Bruce Christie (1977).
Yakshagana, a Dance Drama of India
. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. pp. 21–22
. Retrieved
2012-08-08
.
^
Sir Frederic George Kenyon (1930).
Libraries & Museums
. E. Benn. p. 27.
^
Halliday, F. E.
A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964.
Baltimore, Penguin, 1964, p 213
^
Edward Hutton (1923).
Pietro Aretino: The Scourge of Princes
. Houghton Mifflin. p. 229.
^
John A. Wagner; Susan Walters Schmid (2012).
Encyclopedia of Tudor England
. ABC-CLIO. p. 1120.
ISBN
978-1-59884-298-2
.
^
Daisy L. Neijmann
A History of Icelandic Literature
, p. 177.
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