1595 in literature

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

Events

• May 24 – The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
• December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted at a private performance at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
• The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes ("Guerras civiles de Granada") is published. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original ascribed to "Aben-Hamin", this is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
• After the death of his first wife, Isabel, in the previous year,^[1] Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.

New books

Births

• March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
• October 18 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (died 1655)
• December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)
• Unknown dates
  • Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
  • Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676 in literature)
  • Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish writer and mystic (died 1658)

Deaths

• February – William Painter, English translator (born c. 1540)
• February 21 – Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr (born c. 1561)
• March 18 – Jean de Sponde, French poet (born 1557)
• April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
• May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic writing in Latin (born 1567)
• June 23 – Louis Carrion, Flemish scholar (born 1547)
• October 5 – Faizi, Indian poet and scholar (born 1547)
• November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet 1548)

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