Literature year 1714

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Literature year 1714
Alexander Pope, around 1727	Jonathan Swift about 1710
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Adventures of Rivella.

Events

March 16 : Peace of Rastatt . The peace treaty is written in French. On that day, the gradual displacement of Latin by French as the diplomatic language largely prevailed.

March: The Scriblerus Club , an informal club of writers and literary lovers, meets for the first time in London. Founding members include Jonathan Swift , Alexander Pope , John Gay , John Arbuthnot , whose London home the meetings took place, Thomas Parnell , Henry St. John and Robert Harley . The club ended in 1745 with the deaths of its most prominent members, Pope and Swift. The founding purpose of the club was to satirically target the excesses of erudition and scientific jargon.

The printer Moses ben Avraham Avinu († 1733/34) was imprisoned in Halle , but was able to escape from custody and flee to Amsterdam. Moses ben Avraham Avinu was a Jewish convert who ran a printing shop with Hebrew books in Halle. He was imprisoned because of various antichristian passages in Berekiah Baruch's book Zera 'Berak , and his printed matter was confiscated. In the same year he printed the mixed natractic Rosh Hashanah in Amsterdam .

The Florentine scholar Antonio Magliabechi bequeathed his private library of 30,000 volumes to his patron Cosimo III. de 'Medici as the basis for a public library in Florence. 1714 is considered to be the founding date of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze . It was first opened to users in 1747 under the name Biblioteca Magliabechiana .

The first state library in Russia is established. The first librarian since 1714 was Johann Daniel Schumacher from Germany . The book inventory initially consisted primarily of the library of the Moscow Medical Chancellery and the library of the Courland Duchy, but was expanded to include private collections in the first decades of its existence, primarily the library from the summer palace of Peter the Great . Since 1725 the library belonged to the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Antoine Hamilton's Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont contenant particulièrement histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous le règne de Charles II , which may have been dictated to him by his brother-in-law, the Comte de Gramont and which was first printed in the Netherlands in 1713 appear in the English translation by Abel Boyer in London.

Thomas Ellwood : The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood . Autobiography. Published a year after his death, the book tells of Ellwood's friendship with John Milton , William Penn, and Isaac Penington, and is a historical source on the early days of the Quaker movement.

March 2nd : Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock . The epic poem is published for the first time under the name of its author after anonymous printing.
Bernard Mandeville : The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits , a satirical poem that has been expanded and reprinted several times because of Mandeville's great public success.
Delarivier Manley : The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis , an autobiographical novel
Marivaux : La Voiture embourbée , Roman

The Works of Mr William Shakespear in nine volumes . [3. Output]. Edited by Nicholas Rowe, published in London by Jacob Tonson.

Susanna Centlivre : The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret , one of the most popular plays performed on the 18th century English stage
Robert Hunter : Androboros , a tragic comedy, probably the first play written and printed in the British colonies of North America.
Charles Johnson : The Victim
Nicholas Rowe : The Tragedy of Jane Shore

Johann Christian Günther : The short youthfulness
Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf : The first psalm; About Christ's death; To the Last Judgment; On yourself; At the first supper .
Edward Young : The Force of Religion or Vanquished Love , a poem on the occasion of the execution of Lady Jane Gray and Lord Guildford Dudley .

John Locke : The Works of John Locke are published posthumously.

Leibniz sends his text Eclaircissement sur les Monades to the French philosopher Nicolas François Rémond . The book was published in 1720 in a German translation by the Jena philosopher and constitutional lawyer Heinrich Köhler under the title Monadology .

Anne Dacier ; The cause de la corruption you goût . With this book, the author took a stand in the literary debate of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes

Fénelon : Lettre à l'Académie sur la grammaire, la rhetorique, la poétique et l'historie .

January 1 : Kristijonas Donelaitis , Lithuanian preacher and writer († 1780 )
February 12 : Sebastian Sailer , German Premonstratensian, preacher and writer († 1777 )
May 6 : James Townley , English playwright († 1778 )
July 17 : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher († 1762 )
September 17 : Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener , German writer and publicist of the Enlightenment († 1771 )
October 25 : Lord Monboddo , Scottish lawyer and man of letters († 1779 )
November 4 : Elias Caspar Reichardt , German writer, translator and editor of magazines († 1791 )
November 13 : William Shenstone , English poet († 1763 )
December 16 : George Whitefield , English clergyman and preacher († 1770 )

January 17th : Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo , royal Spanish librarian and poet, one of the founders of the Real Academia Española , (* 1662 )
March 3 : Hans Carl von Carlowitz , German cinematographer and author (* 1645 )
March 27 : Anton Ulrich , Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, writer and patron (* 1633 )
June 22nd : Matthew Henry , Welsh minister and Bible commentator
June 28 : Daniel Papebroch , Jesuit, Dutch church historian and writer, co-editor of Acta Sanctorum , (* 1628 )