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title="1608 in literature">1608</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1609_in_literature" title="1609 in literature">1609</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1610_in_literature" title="1610 in literature">1610</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1611_in_literature" title="1611 in literature">1611</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1612_in_literature" title="1612 in literature">1612</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1613_in_literature" title="1613 in literature">1613</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1614_in_literature" title="1614 in literature">1614</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1615_in_literature" title="1615 in literature">1615</a></li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1616</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1617_in_literature" title="1617 in literature">1617</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1618_in_literature" title="1618 in literature">1618</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1619_in_literature" title="1619 in literature">1619</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1620_in_literature" title="1620 in literature">1620</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1621_in_literature" title="1621 in literature">1621</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1622_in_literature" title="1622 in literature">1622</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1623_in_literature" title="1623 in literature">1623</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1624_in_literature" title="1624 in literature">1624</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1625_in_literature" title="1625 in literature">1625</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1626_in_literature" title="1626 in literature">1626</a> <a href="/wiki/Category:Literature_by_year" title="Category:Literature by year">…</a></li></ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1616_in_art" title="1616 in art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1616_in_archaeology" class="mw-redirect" title="1616 in archaeology">Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1616_in_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="1616 in architecture">Architecture</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1616_in_music" title="1616 in music">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_philosophy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1616 in philosophy (page does not exist)">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1616_in_science" title="1616 in science">Science</a></li></ul> </div><i><a href="/wiki/Category:1616" title="Category:1616">+...</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This article contains information about the literary events and publications of <b>1616</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a> – King <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James I of England</a> attends the <a href="/wiki/Masque" title="Masque">masque</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Age_Restored" title="The Golden Age Restored">The Golden Age Restored</a></i>, a satire by <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> on a fallen court favorite, the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Carr,_1st_Earl_of_Somerset" title="Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset">Earl of Somerset</a>. The King asks for a repeat performance on January 4.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_1" title="February 1">February 1</a> – King James I of England grants <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> an annual pension of 100 <a href="/wiki/Mark_(money)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark (money)">marks</a>, making him <i>de facto</i> <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">poet laureate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus" title="Nicolaus Copernicus">Nicolaus Copernicus</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium" title="De revolutionibus orbium coelestium">De revolutionibus orbium coelestium</a></i> (1543) is placed on the <i><a href="/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a></i> by the Roman Catholic Church.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – Sir <a href="/wiki/Walter_Ralegh" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Ralegh">Walter Ralegh</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> explorer of the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a>, is released from the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a>, where he was imprisoned for treason and has been composing <i>The Historie of the World</i>, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition in search of <a href="/wiki/El_Dorado" title="El Dorado">El Dorado</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pocket_On_This_Day_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pocket_On_This_Day-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a>) – <a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a> dies (three days after completing <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Trabajos_de_Persiles_y_Sigismunda" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda">Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda</a></i>) in Madrid and is buried the following day in the Trinitarias convent there.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_23" title="April 23">April 23</a> (<a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a>) – <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> dies (on or about his 52nd birthday) in retirement in <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a> and is buried two days later in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon">Church of the Holy Trinity</a> there.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – Foundation date of Ets Haim Library, housed from 1675 at the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Synagogue_(Amsterdam)" title="Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam)">Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam)</a>.</li> <li>August – <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Beeston" title="Christopher Beeston">Christopher Beeston</a> acquires the lease of the <a href="/wiki/Cockpit_Theatre" title="Cockpit Theatre">Cockpit</a> off <a href="/wiki/Drury_Lane" title="Drury Lane">Drury Lane</a> in London and converts it into a theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>October/November – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>'s satirical five-act comedy <i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_is_an_Ass" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devil is an Ass">The Devil is an Ass</a></i> is produced at the <a href="/wiki/Blackfriars_Theatre" title="Blackfriars Theatre">Blackfriars Theatre</a>, London, by the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Men_(playing_company)" title="King's Men (playing company)">King's Men</a>, poking fun at contemporary belief in witchcraft (published 1631).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_6" title="November 6">November 6</a>/<a href="/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>'s works appear in a collected <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson_folios" title="Ben Jonson folios">folio</a> edition; the first of any English playwright.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – Ben Jonson's <i><a href="/wiki/Christmas,_His_Masque" title="Christmas, His Masque">Christmas, His Masque</a></i> is presented before King James I of England.</li> <li><i>unknown date</i> – Marie Venier, called Laporte, becomes the first female player to appear on the <a href="/wiki/History_of_theatre" title="History of theatre">stage</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_books">New books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose">Prose</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Valentinus_Andreae" title="Johannes Valentinus Andreae">Johannes Valentinus Andreae</a> (claimed) – <i><a href="/wiki/Chymical_Wedding_of_Christian_Rosenkreutz" title="Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz">Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459</a></i> ("The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz")</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Besold" class="mw-redirect" title="Christoph Besold">Christoph Besold</a> – <i>Axiomata Philosophico-Theologica</i></li> <li>Dr. <a href="/wiki/John_Bullokar" title="John Bullokar">John Bullokar</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/An_English_Expositor" title="An English Expositor">An English Expositor</a>: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses</i> (dictionary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Chapman" title="George Chapman">George Chapman</a> – <i>The Whole Works of Homer</i> (Chapman's translations of <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, previously issued in piecemeal fashion)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipp_Cl%C3%BCver" title="Philipp Clüver">Philipp Clüver</a> – <i>Germania Antiqua</i></li> <li>Fray <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Mur%C3%BAa" title="Martín de Murúa">Martín de Murúa</a> – <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Historia General del Pirú</i></span></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_de_Sales" title="Francis de Sales">Francis de Sales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Lausanne,_Geneva_and_Fribourg" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg">Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva</a> – <i>Treatise on the Love of God</i></li> <li>John Deacon – <i>Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dekker_(poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Dekker (poet)">Thomas Dekker</a> – <i>The Artillery Garden</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Fludd" title="Robert Fludd">Robert Fludd</a> – <i><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Apologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis</i></span></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Gysius" title="Johannes Gysius">Johannes Gysius</a> – <i><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Oorsprong en voortgang der Nederlandtscher beroerten</i></span></i> (Origin and progress of the disturbances in the Netherlands)<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> – <i>The Workes of Beniamin Ionson</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson_folios" title="Ben Jonson folios">the first folio</a> collection)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">Captain John Smith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Description_of_New_England" title="A Description of New England">A Description of New England</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giulio_Cesare_Vanini" class="mw-redirect" title="Giulio Cesare Vanini">Giulio Cesare Vanini</a> – <i><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">De admirandis naturae reginae deaeque mortalium arcanis</i></span></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Anonymous – <i>The Barriers</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Beaumont" title="Francis Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Fletcher_(playwright)" title="John Fletcher (playwright)">John Fletcher</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Scornful_Lady" title="The Scornful Lady">The Scornful Lady</a></i> published</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerbrand_Bredero" title="Gerbrand Bredero">Gerbrand Bredero</a> – <i>Treur-spel van Rodd'rick ende Alphonsus</i>; <i>Griane</i>; <i>Lucelle</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Corneliszoon_Hooft" title="Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft">Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft</a> – <i>Warenar</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Age_Restored" title="The Golden Age Restored">The Golden Age Restored</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_is_an_Ass" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devil is an Ass">The Devil is an Ass</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Christmas,_His_Masque" title="Christmas, His Masque">Christmas, His Masque</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a> (k. 1593) – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tragical_History_of_Doctor_Faustus" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus">Doctor Faustus</a></i> (third quarto published – the "B text"; original text probably written around 1589; additions perhaps by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rowley" title="Samuel Rowley">Samuel Rowley</a> and others)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Middleton" title="Thomas Middleton">Thomas Middleton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Witch_(play)" title="The Witch (play)">The Witch</a></i> (latest probable date)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Munday" title="Anthony Munday">Anthony Munday</a> – <i>Chrysanaleia</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1616_in_poetry" title="1616 in poetry">1616 in poetry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agrippa_d%27Aubign%C3%A9" title="Agrippa d'Aubigné">Agrippa d'Aubigné</a> – <i>Les Tragiques</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Chapman" title="George Chapman">George Chapman</a> – <i>The Whole Works of Homer</i> (first publication of full English translation)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> – "<a href="/wiki/To_Celia" class="mw-redirect" title="To Celia">To Celia</a>" and "On my first Sonne"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Josselin" title="Ralph Josselin">Ralph Josselin</a>, English diarist and Anglican cleric (died <a href="/wiki/1683_in_literature" title="1683 in literature">1683</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Birkenhead" title="John Birkenhead">John Birkenhead</a>, English political writer and journalist (died <a href="/wiki/1679_in_literature" title="1679 in literature">1679</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_27" title="April 27">April 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeremias_Felbinger" title="Jeremias Felbinger">Jeremias Felbinger</a>, German Socinian writer (died c. 1690)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">October 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Andreas_Gryphius" title="Andreas Gryphius">Andreas Gryphius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silesia" title="Silesia">Silesian</a> poet and dramatist (died <a href="/wiki/1664_in_literature" title="1664 in literature">1664</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">October 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Culpeper" title="Nicholas Culpeper">Nicholas Culpeper</a>, English herbalist, physician and astrologer (died <a href="/wiki/1664_in_literature" title="1664 in literature">1664</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> <i>(baptized)</i> – <a href="/wiki/William_Gurnall" title="William Gurnall">William Gurnall</a>, English writer and cleric (died <a href="/wiki/1679_in_literature" title="1679 in literature">1679</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_17" title="December 17">December 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Roger_L%27Estrange" title="Roger L'Estrange">Roger L'Estrange</a>, English pamphleteer (died <a href="/wiki/1704_in_literature" title="1704 in literature">1704</a>)</li> <li><i>unknown date</i> – <a href="/wiki/John_Owen_(theologian)" title="John Owen (theologian)">John Owen</a>, English theologian (died <a href="/wiki/1683_in_literature" title="1683 in literature">1683</a>)</li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG/350px-Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG" decoding="async" width="350" height="379" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG/525px-Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG/700px-Shakespeare%27s_grave_epitaph.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2844" data-file-height="3077" /></a><figcaption>Shakespeare's gravestone</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Philip_Henslowe" title="Philip Henslowe">Philip Henslowe</a>, English theatre impresario (born <a href="/wiki/1550_in_literature" title="1550 in literature">1550</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anders_S%C3%B8rensen_Vedel" title="Anders Sørensen Vedel">Anders Sørensen Vedel</a>, Danish historian (born <a href="/wiki/1542_in_literature" title="1542 in literature">1542</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Francis_Beaumont" title="Francis Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a>, English dramatist (born <a href="/wiki/1584_in_literature" title="1584 in literature">1584</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> (Gregorian calendar) – <a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, Spanish novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1547_in_literature" title="1547 in literature">1547</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_23" title="April 23">April 23</a> (Julian calendar) – <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, English dramatist and poet (born <a href="/wiki/1564_in_literature" title="1564 in literature">1564</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_23" title="April 23">April 23</a> (Gregorian calendar) – <a href="/wiki/Garcilaso_de_la_Vega_(chronicler)" class="mw-redirect" title="Garcilaso de la Vega (chronicler)">Garcilaso de la Vega</a>, Peruvian Spanish chronicler (born <a href="/wiki/1539_in_literature" title="1539 in literature">1539</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_7" title="August 7">August 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vincenzo_Scamozzi" title="Vincenzo Scamozzi">Vincenzo Scamozzi</a>, Venetian writer on architecture (born <a href="/wiki/1548_in_literature" title="1548 in literature">1548</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hakluyt" title="Richard Hakluyt">Richard Hakluyt</a>, English travel writer (born <a href="/wiki/1553_in_literature" title="1553 in literature">1553</a>)</li> <li><i>unknown date</i> - <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Leigh" title="Dorothy Leigh">Dorothy Leigh</a>, English writer remembered for <i>The Mother's Blessing</i>, 1616 (born, unknown date)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1616_in_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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