1610 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1610.

Events

June 5 – The masque Tethys' Festival by Samuel Daniel is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
September 7 – Lope de Vega buys a house in Madrid.
December 12 – Sir Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with it into his new Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford.
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*The Douay–Rheims Bible, a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, is published under the Catholic Church.
*At the Dominican Order's printing press at Abucay Church in the Philippines, Tomas Pinpin prints Father Francisco Blancas de San Jose's Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala and his assistant Diego Talaghay prints Pinpin's own Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla, the first book written by a native Filipino in the local Tagalog language. It encourages his countrymen to learn Spanish.
*Henry Savile begins publication at Eton College at his own expense of Tou en hagiois patros hemon Ioannou Archiepiskopou Konstantinoupoleos tou Chrysostomou ton heuriskomenon, his edition of the works of St John Chrysostom, a notable work of English scholarship.

Jean Beguin – Tyrocinium Chymicum
Edmund Bunny –
William Camden – Britannia, in an enlarged translation by Philemon Holland into English
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, fourth edition
John Healey – St. Augustine of the Citie of God, a translation of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei into English
Charles Loyseau – ''Traité des ordres et simples dignités''