1560 in literature

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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 Contention bettwyxte Churchyeard 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

^ 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
^ 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.
^ 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 or UK public library membership required)
^ Walter Farquhar Hook (1847). An Ecclesiastical Biography: Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines. F. and J. Rivington. p. 25.
^ 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
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Adam Puschman; Georg Thym; Johann Fischart; Kaspar von Stieler (1891). Adam Puschman: Gründlicher bericht des deutschen meistergesangs. Erste aufl. (1571). M. Niemeyer=.