1563 in literature
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Events
- August - Michel de Montaigne writes a long letter to his father, describing the death of his friend Étienne de La Boétie.[1]
New books
- Yosef Caro - Shulchan Aruch
- John Foxe - Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
- Richard Grafton - Abridgement of the Chronicles of England.
- Garcia de Orta - Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India.
- Pierino Belli - De re militari et de bello.
- Francesco Cattani da Diacceto - Opera omnia (Basle).
Births
- January - Leonhard Hutter, theologian (died 1616)
- January 30 - Franciscus Gomarus, theologian (died 1641)
- date unknown
- Michael Drayton, poet (died 1631)
- Pierre Matthieu, poet and dramatist (died 1621)
- Sir Robert Naunton, politician and historian (died 1635)
- Joshua Sylvester, poet (died 1618)
Deaths
- May 21 - Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (born 1510)
- August 18 - Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher (born 1530)
- November - John Bale, historian (born 1495)
- December 29 - Sebastian Castellio, theologian (born 1515)
- probable - Arthur Brooke, poet
References
- ^ Denis Hollier; R. Howard Bloch (1994). A new history of French literature. Harvard University Press. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-0-674-61566-3. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
