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EVENTS

Publication of the First Folio edition of William Shakespeare 's works.

Procopius 's long-lost ''Secret History'' is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.

François Le Métel De Boisrobert comes under the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu .

NEW BOOKS

Tommaso Campanella - ''Civitas Solis (" The City Of The Sun ")''

William Drummond Of Hawthornden - ''Flowers of Sion''

Giambattista Marini - ''Adone''

Antonio De Leon Pinelo - ''Discurso de la importancia, de la forma, y de la disposicion de la colleccion de las leyes de Indias''

George Wither - ''Hymnes and Songs of the Church''

NEW DRAMA

Richard Brome - ''A Fault in Friendship''

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - ''The Lover's Progress''

Philip Massinger - ''The Bondman''

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley - ''The Spanish Gypsy''

John Webster - '' The Duchess Of Malfi ''

BIRTHS

June 19 - Blaise Pascal , philosopher

October 17 - Francis Turretin , theologian

''date unknown'' - Margaret Cavendish , Duchess of Newcastle, biographer, poet and philosopher

''date unknown'' - Henri Sauval , historian

DEATHS

January 15 - Paolo Sarpi , church historian

August 6 - Anne Hathaway , widow of William Shakespeare

November 9 - William Camden , historian

November 11 - Philippe De Mornay , Protestant writer

''date unknown'' - John Cameron , theologian

''date unknown'' - Philip Cluwer , historian

''date unknown'' - Tulsidas , Hindu philosopher and poet