1643_in_literature

1643 in literature

The year 1643 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.
Parliament issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press — the action John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.

Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici (the 1st "authorized" edition, after 2 unauthorized in the previous year)
Sir Kenelm Digby - Observations Upon Religio Medici
John Milton - Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Roger Williams - A Key into the Language of America

April 4 - Simon Episcopius, theologian (born 1583)
November 29 - William Cartwright, dramatist (born 1611)
date unknown
- Abraham Azulai, Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
- Sidney Godolphin, poet (born 1610)
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
- Pedro de Oña, first known Chilean poet (born 1570)