Literature year 1656
Literary year 1656 | 1660
Overview of the literary
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Jean-Galbert de Campistron (1656-1723)
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Andreas Rivinus (1601–1656)
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Hans Paus (1656-1715)
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Events
- January 23 : Blaise Pascal begins writing Les Provinciales , a series of letters to his Jansento friend Antoine Arnauld . Since their publication is illegal, he denounces some methods used by the Jesuits , such as casuistry . Pascal finished his work on March 24, 1657. Pascal's polemics and his rhetorical style make the letters one of the most important literary works of the era. The letters were received and discussed in the literary salons. Because of their anti-church thrust, they belong to the early enlightenment . Louis XIV had the letters banned in 1660 and burned at the stake. But by that time they had already been translated into various languages and so they had a decisive influence on later thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau .
- February 19 : World premiere of the musical drama Orontea by Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck .
- April 25 : In London , the city council, which is normally only satisfied with larger matters, deals exceptionally with the censorship of individual books and commissions the Lord Mayor of London to publish the title Sportive Wit, or the Muses' Merriment, published by John Philipps, because of its scandalous merriment to burn lascivious bizarre and profane content.
- May 9 : The British Council of State orders the destruction of all copies of Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets .
- July 13 : World premiere of the drama Theti by Antonio Bertali at the Hofburg Vienna in Vienna .
- July 27 : Baruch de Spinoza is expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam.
- September : World premiere of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant , the first English opera .
- November 12th : John Milton marries Katherine Woodcock.
- Two drama books are published in 1656: The Careless Shepherdess and The Old Law contain the first playlist or catalog of all plays performed in England to date.
New releases
prose
Olearius' representation of Kazan
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Comical story of the states and empires of the moon
- Adam Olearius - Increased Newe Description of the Muscowite and Persian Reyse This is what happened through the occasion of a Holstein embassy to the Russian Tsar and King in Persia
drama
- Thomas Corneille - Timocrate
- Robert Cox - John Swabber the Seaman
- Thomas Dekker & John Ford - The Sun's Darling
- Thomas Goffe - Three Excellent Tragedies ; The Careless Shepherdess
- Sir William Lower - Horatius
- Thomas Middleton , William Rowley , & Philip Massinger - The Old Law
- Molière - Le Dépit amoureux
- Walter Montague - The Accomplished Woman
- Edmund Prestwich - The Hectors, or the False Challenge
Poetry
- Pierre Corneille - L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ
- Abraham Cowley - The Miscellanies
- William Davenant - Wit and Drollery: Jovial Poems
- Andreas Gryphius - Cemetery Thoughts
Non-fiction
- Pierre Borel - Trésor des recherches et antiquitez gauloises et françoises
- Méric Casaubon - A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasm
- Margaret Cavendish - Nature's Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life und A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life
- James Harrington - The Commonwealth of Oceana
- Thomas Hobbes - Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance
- Elizabeth Major - Honey on the Rod
- Marchmont Nedham - The Excellency of a Free State
- Francis Osborne - Advice to a Son (A book against marriage that was banned and burned for reasons of amorality.)
- Blaise Pascal - Les Provinciales (completed March 1657)
- Michel de Pure - La Précieuse ou les mystères des ruelles
- Gerrard Winstanley - The Law of Freedom
- Martin Zeiller / Matthäus Merian - Topographia Franconiae
Born
- February 7th : Maria Selvaggia Borghini , Italian poet and translator († 1735 )
- April 11 : Paul Rabe , German philologist and philosopher († 1713 )
- April 17 : William Molyneux , philosopher and political writer († 1698 )
- June 17 : Paul Thymich , German poet († 1694 )
- June 27 : Paul Jacob Marperger , German economist and cinematographer († 1730 )
- August : Lady Mary Chudleigh , English poet († 1710 )
- August 28 : Jean Croiset , French Catholic priest, Jesuit, and author of ascetic writings († 1738 )
- September 14th : Thomas Baker , English antiquarian and author
- November 9th : Paul Aler , Jesuit, philologist and poet from Luxembourg († 1727 )
- November 26 : Adam Erdmann Mirus , German educator, orientalist, popular science writer and lexicographer († 1728 )
- exact date unknown: Burkard Bausch , monk and chronicler of the Frankish Benedictine Münsterschwarzach († 1721 / 23 )
- exact date unknown: Jean-Galbert de Campistron , French playwright and student of Jean Racines (* 1723 )
- exact date unknown: Charles Davenant , economist and son of Sir William Davenant († 1714 )
- exact date unknown: Philip Trap , cleric and chronicler from Jersey († 1742 )
- exact date unknown: Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger , Dutch writer and doctor († 1718 )
- exact date unknown: Hans Paus , Norwegian priest and poet († 1715 )
- exact date unknown: Hugh Speke , English writer and agitator (around 1724 )
Died
Andrew White baptizes the Indian chief Chitomachon. Woodcut in Mathias Tanner's Societas Jesu apostolorum imitatrix , Prague 1694
- January 19 : Godfrey Goodman , Anglican bishop and theologian (* around 1582 )
- February 1 : Rudolf von Drachenfels , German administrative officer and occasional poet (* 1582 )
- February 16 : Johann Klaj , German poet (* 1616 )
- February 27 : Johan van Heemskerk , Dutch Baroque writer, lawyer and politician (* 1597 )
- March 21 : James Ussher , Irish Anglican theologian and author of numerous theological and historical works (* 1581 )
- April 4 : Andreas Rivinus , German philosopher, neo-Latin poet, philologist and physician (* 1601 )
- April 24th : Thomas Finck , German mathematician, physician and rhetorician (* 1561 )
- June 17 : Martin Gosky , German physician and poet of the Baroque period (around 1586)
- June 19th : Hempo von dem Knesebeck , member of the "Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft" (* 1595 )
- July 23 : Nicolaus Henel von Hennenfeld , German senior syndic, biographer, chronicler and historian (* 1582 )
- July 27th : Salomo Glassius , German Lutheran theologian (* 1593 )
- August 8 : Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas , Portuguese military and poet (* 1596 )
- August 24th : Aegidius Gelenius , German historian (* 1595 )
- September 8 : Bishop Joseph Hall , English satirist (* 1574 )
- September 27th : Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein, Austrian translator of novels of the Baroque period (* 1582 )
- October 3 : Myles Standish , American colonist best known for Longfellow's poem
- December 27th : Andrew White , New England Jesuit and chronicler, also called "Apostle of Maryland" (* 1579 )
- December: John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) , Welsh Anglican priest and translator (* 1605 )
- exact date unknown: Akha Bhagat , Indian writer of the Gujarati (* 1591 )
- exact date unknown: Thomas Gage , English clergyman and writer (around 1597 )
Web links
Commons : Literary Works of 1656 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1656 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Jean Firges : Pascal and Teilhard de Chardin . Two world views in conflict. Exemplary series literature and philosophy, 32. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2011 ISBN 3-933264-65-0 .
- ↑ There are also indications of a first performance in Venice in 1649: David RB Kimbell: Italian Opera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1991, p. 163 f.
- ↑ Haig A. Bosmajian: Burning Books. McFarland, Jefferson 2005, p. 189.
- ^ Adam Smyth: Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2004, p. 132.
- ↑ Elisabeth Theresia Fritz-Hilscher / Helmut Kretschmer (eds.): Vienna, Music History. From prehistory to the present. LIT, Münster 2012, p. 159.
- ↑ Steven Nadler: Spinoza: A Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 978-0-521-00293-6 , p. 120.
- ^ Kathleen M. Lynch: The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy. Biblo-Moser, SI 1998, p. 109 f.