Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 27 – Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega dies aged 72 of scarlet fever in Madrid. This year also his illegitimate son Lope Félix, another poet, is drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Venezuela and his youngest daughter Antonia Clara is abducted. Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses. Thomas Heywood: The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, has the much-quoted passage "Mellifluous Shakes-peare, whose inchanting Quill/Commanded Mirth or Passion" ... Philocothonista; or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized Francis Quarles, Emblemes Joseph Rutter, The Shepheard's Holy-Day: A pastorall tragi-comaedie George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, with emblems printed from engravings originally produced by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus Emblematorum 1611–1613 Gabriel Bocángel, Lira de las muses ("The Muses' Lyre"), containing both ballads and sonnets; Spain Jean Chapelain, De la poésie représentative, France Lope de Vega, Filis, eclogue, Spain Antoine Godeau, Discours sur la Poésie Chrétienne, France February 21 – Thomas Flatman (died 1688), English poet and miniature painter June 3 – Philippe Quinault (died 1688), French dramatist, poet, and librettist September 20 (bapt.) – Thomas Sprat (died 1713), English bishop and poet Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March – Thomas Randolph (born 1605), English poet and dramatist April 7 – Leonard Digges (born 1588), English poet and translator April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni (born 1565), Italian July 28 – Richard Corbet (born 1582), English August 7 – Friedrich Spee (born 1591), German Jesuit and poet August 27 – Lope de Vega (born 1562), Spanish playwright and poet October 18 – Jean de Schelandre (born c. 1585), French Nef'i (born 1582?), Ottoman Turkish Shen Yixiu (born 1590),