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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659 .

Events [ edit ]

January 27 ? The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament .
August ? William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth 's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
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- Meric Casaubon edits John Dee 's journal of angel magic.
- The Icelandic pastor Jon Magnusson completes his Pislarsaga (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).

Richard Baxter ? The Holy Commonwealth
Meric Casaubon (ed.) ? A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
Thomas Hobbes ? De Homine
Christiaan Huygens ? Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos ? La Coquette vengee (The Flirt Avenged)
Richard Lovelace ? Lucasta (posthumous)
William Prynne ? Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
Johann Heinrich Rahn ? Teutsche Algebra
Peter Revay ? De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
John Rushworth ? Historical Collections of Private Passages of State... (also The Rushworth Papers )
Anna Maria van Schurman ? The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English version of 1638 Latin original)
Jeremy Taylor ? Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

January 1 ? Humphrey Hody , English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707 )
March ? Margrethe Lasson , Danish novelist (died 1738 )
March 25 ? John Asgill , English pamphleteer (died 1738 )
March 26 ? William Wollaston , English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724 )
April 29 ? Sophia Elisabet Brenner , Swedish poet and writer (died 1730 ) ^[3]
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- Thomas Creech , English classicist and translator (died 1700 )
- Kata Szidonia Petr?czy , Hungarian poet (died 1708 )

January 7 ? Laurenz Forer , Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580 )
January 31 ? Janos Apaczai Csere , Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625 )
February 4 ? Francis Osborne , English essayist (born 1593 )
April 15 ? Simon Dach , German poet and hymnist (born 1605 )
June 3 ? Morgan Llwyd , Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619 ) ^[4]
September 22 ? Thomas Morton , English polemicist and bishop (born 1564 )
October 27 ? Giovanni Francesco Busenello , Italian poet and librettist (born 1598 )

^ Robert Dodsley (1874). A Select Collection of Old English Plays . Reeves and Turner. p. 11.
^ Tiffany Stern (17 September 2009). Documents of Performance in Early Modern England . Cambridge University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-139-48297-4 .
^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
^ "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 25 March 2019 .