  the year 1643 in literature involved some significant events. ==events== *june 16 - parliament issues the licensing order of 1643 to control the press &mdash; the action against which john milton protests in his areopagitica of the following year. *august 1 - first of milton's divorce tracts published, anonymously and unlicensed. *having had his philosophy condemned by the university of utrecht, renÃ© descartes begins his long correspondence with princess elizabeth of bohemia. *cardinal mazarin opens the bibliothÃ¨que mazarine in paris to scholars. *the medieval icelandic manuscript codex regius comes to light, in the possession of bishop brynjÃ³lfur sveinsson. *miyamoto musashi begins dictating the book of five rings (go rin no sho). *francis bacon's new atlantis and tommaso campanella's civitas solis, the city of the sun, are published together in a volume titled mundus alter et idem &mdash; the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together. ==new books== *sir thomas browne - religio medici (the 1st "authorized" edition, after 2 unauthorized in the previous year) *sir kenelm digby - observations upon religio medici *philip hunton - a treatise of monarchie *john milton - doctrine and discipline of divorce *roger williams - a key into the language of america * gabriel de la vega - la feliz campaÃ±a y los dichosos progresos que tuvieron las armas de d. felipe iv en estos paÃ­ses bajos el aÃ±o de 1642 *pedro agerre - gero ==new drama== *sir william davenant - the unfortunate lovers published * francisco de quevedo - entremÃ©s de las sombras * la mujer de peribÃ¡Ã±ez *pierre corneille **le menteur **polyeucte*claude de l'estoile - la belle esclave ("the beautiful slave") ==poetry== * ramillete gracioso * antoine girard de saint-amant - albion ==births== *march 26 - louis morÃ©ri, encyclopaedist (died 1680) *september 18 - bishop gilbert burnet, historian (died 1715) *november 1 - john strype, historian and biographer (died 1737) *november 16 - jean chardin, travel writer (died 1713) ==deaths== *february 9 - sidney godolphin, poet (born 1610) *april 4 - simon episcopius, theologian (born 1583) *april 12 - nicolaus hunnius, lutheran theologian (born 1585) *april 20 - christoph demantius, composer and poet (born 1567) *november 29 - william cartwright, dramatist (born 1611) *date unknown **abraham azulai, kabbalistic author (born c.1570) **thomas master, poet and translator (born 1603) **pedro de oÃ±a, first known chilean poet (born 157
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