  the year 1617 in literature involved some significant events. ==events== *march 4 - shrovetide riot of the london apprentices damages the cockpit theatre. impresario christopher beeston rebuilds it, and christens it the phoenix for its rebirth, perhaps to designs by inigo jones. *the collected works of john calvin are published posthumously in geneva. *martin opitz founds the fruchtbringende gesellschaft at weimar. *alcemistâhermeticist esoteric thinker robert fludd begins the publication of his life's work, the utriusque cosmi...historia, which in future years proliferates through multiple published volumes, tractates, sections, and portions, only to remain incomplete at the time of fludd's death two decades later. *two pseudonymous publications in the joseph swetnam anti-feminist controversy appear in 1617: esther hath hang'd haman by "esther sowernam", and the worming of a mad dog by "constantia munda". only rachel speght publishes her response to swetnam, a muzzle for melastomus, under her own name. ==new books== *johann valentin andreae - menippus ** invitatio fraternitatis christi (1617-1618) *miguel de cervantes - los trabajos de persiles y sigismunda (posthumous) *robert fludd - utriusque cosmi...historia, tomus primus ("the history of the two worlds, volume 1") *michael maier - silentium post clamores *barnabe rich - the irish hubbub, or the english hue and cry ==new drama== *giambattista andreini - the penitent magdalene published in mantua *gerbrand adriaenszoon bredero - de spaanschen brabander ierolimo ("the spanish brabanter jerolimo") *ben jonson - the vision of delight; lovers made men *thomas middleton & william rowley - a fair quarrel published *thÃ©odore de viau - pyramus et thisbe ==births== *may 22 - johannes andreas quenstedt, dogmatician (died 1688) *july 31 - nicolÃ¡s antonio, bibliographer (died 1684) *december 9 - richard lovelace, cavalier poet (died 1657) *date unknown **ralph cudworth, philosopher (died 1688) **william gurnall, christian writer (died 1679) **pierre petit, scholar, physician, poet and latin writer (died 1687) **vavasor powell, nonconformist writer (died 1670) ==deaths== *february 4 - lodewijk elzevir, dutch printer (born c. 1540) *february 16 - kaspar ulenberg, german theologian and translator (born 1549) *may 7 **david fabricius, german theologian (born 1564) **jacques auguste de thou, french historian (born 1553) *august 13 - johann jakob grynaeus, swiss theologian (born 1540) *september 25 - francisco suÃ¡rez, philosopher and theologian (born 1548) *[[octo
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