1595 in literature
# 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 as the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
* December 9 – Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted privately at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby, with Sir Robert Cecil attending.
* unknown dates
   * The first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita's Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (Guerras civiles de Granada) appears. Supposedly a chronicle of the Morisco rebellions in Granada based on an Arabic original, it is probably the earliest historical novel and certainly the first to gain popularity.
   * Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid, after the death of his first wife Isabel in the previous year.

## New books

### Prose

* Mikalojus Daukša – Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus
* Justus Lipsius – De militia romana
* Nicholas Remy – Daemonolatreiae libri tres
* Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous, written 1580–83) – An Apology for Poetry
* Vincentio Saviolo – His practise, in two bookes. (first manual of fencing in English)
* Fausto Veranzio – Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ, Germanicæ, Dalmatiæ, & Vngaricæ published in Latin in Venice

### Drama

* Anonymous – Locrine (published claiming to be revised by "W. S.")
* Jakob Ayrer – Von der Erbauung Roms (Of the Building of Rome)
* Gervase Markham – The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
* Antoine de Montchrestien – Sophonisbe
* Robert Wilson? – The Pedlers Prophecie
* Approximate year
   * William Alabaster, Roxana
   * William Shakespeare, Richard II
      * Romeo and Juliet
      * A Midsummer Night's Dream

### Poetry

* Barnabe Barnes – A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets
* Richard Barnfield – Cynthia
* Thomas Campion – Poemata
* George Chapman (anonymous) – Ovid's Banquet of Sense
* Gervase Markham – The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
* Robert Southwell (anonymous) – Saint Peter's Complaint
* Edmund Spenser
   * Amoretti and Epithalamion ("written not long since")
   * Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

## Births

* March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian church historian (died 1670)
* before June – Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1640)
* 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
   * Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663)
   * Jean Desmarets, French writer and dramatist (died 1676)
   * Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish Jesuit 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)
