1644 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.

Events

April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.
November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.
December – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.
The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody.

John Milton
*Areopagitica
*Of Education
Roger Williams – The Bloody Tenet of Persecution
Francisco de Quevedo
*Vida de Marco Bruto
*Vida de San Pablo Apóstol
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – Vida del santo padre y gran siervo de Dios el beato Francisco de Borja
René Descartes – Principia Philosophiae
Marin Mersenne – Cogitata physico-mathematica
Evangelista Torricelli – Opera geometrica
Giulio Strozzi – ''Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi romana''