Editing 1595 in literature

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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of '''1595'''.

==Events==
*[[May 24]] – The ''Nomenclator'' of [[Leiden University Library]] appears as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
*[[December 9]] – Shakespeare's ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury|Robert Cecil]] attending.
*''unknown dates''
**The first part of [[Ginés Pérez de Hita]]'s ''Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada)'' appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the [[Morisco rebellions in Granada]] based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest [[historical novel]] and certainly the first to gain popularity.
**[[Lope de Vega]] leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619586/Isabel-de-Urbina |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |title=Isabel de Urbina |accessdate=2013-02-01}}</ref> 

==New books==
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===Prose===
*[[Mikalojus Daukša]] – ''[[Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus]]''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Sergejus |last=Temčinas |editor-first1=Alfredas |editor-last1=Bumblauskas |editor-first2=Grigorijus |editor-last2=Potašenko |url=https://www.academia.edu/5807633 |chapter=Pirmoji Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštijoje lietuviškai spausdinta (katalikiška) knyga: hipotetinis 1585 metų ar Mikalojaus Daukšos 1595 metų katekizmas? |pages=62–79 |title=Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštijos istorijos ir tradicijos fenomenai: tautų atminties vietos |location=Vilnius |publisher=Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |year=2013 |isbn=978-609-459-221-8 |language=lt}}</ref>
*[[Justus Lipsius]] – ''De militia romana''<ref>{{cite book |author=Justus Lipsius |title=Politica: Six Books of Politics Or Political Instruction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oP91rnA_wQwC&pg=PA126 |year=2004 |publisher=Uitgeverij Van Gorcum |isbn=978-90-232-4038-9 |pages=126}}</ref>
*[[Nicholas Remy]] – ''[[Daemonolatreiae libri tres]]''
*Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (posthumous, written 1580–83) – ''[[An Apology for Poetry]]''<ref>Craig, D.H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in ''An Apology for Poetry''." In Arthur F. Kinney, ed. ''Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney'', Hamden: Archon Books.</ref>
*[[Vincentio Saviolo]] – ''His practise, in two bookes.'' (first manual of fencing in English)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Saviolo_1595.pdf |title=PDF Copy available here. |access-date=2010-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621034142/http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Saviolo_1595.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Fausto Veranzio]] – ''Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ'' published in Latin in [[Venice]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oFlgAAAAMAAJ&q=Fausto+Veranzio Copy available here.]</ref>

===Drama===
*Anonymous – ''[[Locrine]]'' (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maxwell |first=Baldwin |title=Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha |location=New York |publisher=King's Crown Press |year=1956 |pages=39–63}}</ref>
*[[Jakob Ayrer]] – ''Von der Erbauung Roms'' (Of the Building of Rome)
*[[Gervase Markham]] – ''The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville''<ref>{{Cite book |author=John Payne Collier |title=The Poetical Decameron Or the Conversations on English Poets and Poetry |url=https://archive.org/details/poeticaldecamer00collgoog |year=1820 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/poeticaldecamer00collgoog/page/n79 67]}}</ref>
*[[Antoine de Montchrestien]] – ''Sophonisbe''
*[[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]]? – ''The Pedlers Prophecie''
*''Approximate year''
**[[William Alabaster]], ''Roxana''
**[[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]''
***''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''
***''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1595 in poetry}}
*[[Barnabe Barnes]] – ''A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets''<ref>{{Cite book |first=James E. |last=Ruoff |title=Macmillan's Handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFZdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 |date=1975-11-11 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-02793-4|pages=29}}</ref>
*[[Richard Barnfield]] – ''Cynthia''
*[[Thomas Campion]] – ''Poemata''
*[[George Chapman]] (anonymous) – ''Ovid's Banquet of Sense''
*[[Gervase Markham]] – ''The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse''
*[[Robert Southwell (Jesuit)|Robert Southwell]] (anonymous) – ''Saint Peter's Complaint''
*[[Edmund Spenser]]
**''[[Amoretti|Amoretti and Epithalamion]]'' ("written not long since")
**''[[Colin Clouts Come Home Againe]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Edmund Spenser|title=The Works of Edmund Spenser: Complaints (concluded). Colin Clouts come home againe. Foure hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion. Sonnets. Britain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland. Glossary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_M8vAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA66|year=1873|pages=66}}</ref>

==Births==
*[[March 21]] – [[Ferdinando Ughelli]], Italian church historian (died [[1670 in literature|1670]])
*before June – [[Thomas Carew]], English poet (died [[1640 in literature|1640]])
*[[October 18]] – [[Edward Winslow]], English theologian, pamphleteer and [[History of New England|New England]] politician (died [[1655 in literature|1655]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Jean Chapelain]], French poet and critic (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Bihari (poet)|Bihari Lal]], Hindi poet (died [[1663 in literature|1663]])<ref>{{cite book|author=A. L. Dallapiccola|title=Indian love poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_9jAAAAMAAJ|date=30 September 2006|publisher=Interlink Books|page=90}}</ref>
**[[Jean Desmarets]], French writer and dramatist (died [[1676 in literature|1676]])
**[[Juan Eusebio Nieremberg]], Spanish Jesuit writer and mystic (died [[1658 in literature|1658]])

==Deaths==
*February – [[William Painter (author)|William Painter]], English translator (born c. 1540)
*[[February 21]] – [[Robert Southwell (jesuit)|Robert Southwell]], English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
*[[March 18]] – [[Jean de Sponde]], French poet (born [[1557 in literature|1557]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Torquato Tasso]], Italian poet (born [[1544 in literature|1544]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|title=Torquato Tasso: A Play|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_DnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA4|year=1979|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0720-0|pages=4}}</ref>
*[[May 25]] – [[Valens Acidalius]], German poet and critic writing in Latin (born [[1567 in literature|1567]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Louis Carrion]], Flemish scholar (born [[1547 in literature|1547]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Platts|title=A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IrQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA674|year=1826|publisher=Sherwood, Jones & Company|pages=674}}</ref>
*[[October 5]] – [[Faizi]], Indian poet and scholar (born [[1547 in literature|1547]])
*[[November 5]] – [[Luis Barahona de Soto]], Spanish poet [[1548 in literature|1548]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica: First Published in 1768 by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eORMAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica.|isbn=978-0-85229-173-3|page=145}}</ref>

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