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Overview of the events of 1639 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1639.
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Jean du Vergier de Hauranne – Théologie familière, ou Instruction de ce que le Chrétien doit croire et faire en cette vie pour être sauvé
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Francisco de Quevedo – La isla de los monopantos
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Jan Marek Marci – De proportione motus seu regula sphygmica
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Friedrich Spanheim – Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de . . Christofle Vicomte de Dohna
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Henry Spelman (ed.) – Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones in re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici (3 vols, containing many forgeries)
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Richard Corbet – Certain Elegant Poems
- John Clarke – Paroemiologia ("Early to bed and early to rise...")
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Henry Glapthorne – Poems, including a series addressed to "Lucinda"
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Francis Quarles – Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight
- January –
Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (born
1603)
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January 23 –
Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Argentinian poet (burned at stake, born
1592)
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May 21 –
Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet and theologian (born
1568)
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August 4 –
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, New Spanish dramatist (born c. 1581)
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August 20 –
Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (born
1597)
- October –
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, English poet, translator and dramatist (born
1585)
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November 26 –
John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (born
1565)
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- Possible date –
John Ford, English dramatist and poet (born
1586)