1643 in literature
# 1643 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.

## Events

* May/June – René Descartes, having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
* June 16 – The Parliament of England issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press – the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
* August 1 – The first of Milton's divorce tracts is published, anonymously and unlicensed.
* unknown dates
   * Cardinal Mazarin opens the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris to scholars.
   * The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur 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 – the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.

## New books

### Prose

* Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici (first "authorized" edition, after two 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
* Pedro Agerre (Axular) – Gero

### Drama

* Pierre Corneille
   * Le Menteur
   * Polyeucte
* Sir William Davenant – The Unfortunate Lovers published
* Claude de L'Estoile – La Belle Esclave (The Beautiful Slave)
* Francisco de Quevedo
   * Entremés de las sombras
   * La mujer de Peribáñez

### Poetry

* Ramillete gracioso
* Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant – Albion

## Births

* March 26 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist and priest (died 1680)
* September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish historian and bishop (died 1715)
* November 1 – John Strype, English historian, biographer and cleric (died 1737)
* November 16 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (died 1713)
* unknown date – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (died 1713)

## Deaths

* February 9 – Sidney Godolphin, English poet (born 1610)
* April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (born 1583)
* April 12 – Nicolaus Hunnius, German theologian (born 1585)
* April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German poet and composer (born 1567)
* November 29 – William Cartwright, English poet, dramatist and cleric (born 1611)
* unknown dates
   * Abraham Azulai, Moroccan-born Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
   * Thomas Master, English poet, translator and cleric (born 1603)
   * Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (born 1570)
* probable
   * Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
   * Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (born 1610)
