1650 in literature

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The year 1650 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics.
Parliament appoints a commission for the propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales, advised by Vavasor Powell.^[1]
Despite the official prohibition against stage plays in England, theatrical manager and promoter William Beeston finances repairs to the Cockpit Theatre and attempts to assemble and train a company of young actors. His effort is unsuccessful.
Under this year's Blasphemy Act, English radical Jacob Bauthumley is arrested, convicted and has his tongue pierced on account of his book The Light and Dark Sides of God.
Robert Baron publishes his plagiarized work Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.
At about this date Agneta Horn writes her autobiography, Agneta Horns leverne, in Swedish; it will not be discovered until 1885.

Anne Bradstreet - The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America^[2]
Andrew Marvell - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
Henry Vaughan - Silex scintillans (part 1)
Luis de Ulloa Pereira - La Raquel
Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa - Panegírico y natalicio al marqués de Montalbán

July – Charles Leslie, Irish theologian (died 1722)
September 23 – Bishop Jeremy Collier, English theologian and theatre critic (died 1726)
Unknown dates
- Madame d'Aulnoy, French writer of fairy tales (died 1705)
- Carlo Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (died 1712)
- Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian (died 1678)
Probable year of birth – Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician (died 1729)

February 11 – René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596 in literature)
April 22 – Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer (born 1599 in literature)
May 27 – Anthony Ascham, English political theorist (born c. 1614)
June – Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (born 1609 in literature)
June 30 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian philosopher (born 1586 in literature)
August 25 – Richard Crashaw, English poet (born c. 1613)
September 17 – Constantino Cajetan, Italian scholar and book collector (born 1560 in literature)
October 25 – Franciscus Quaresmius, Milanese Franciscan writer (born 1583 in literature)
November 13 – Thomas May, English poet and historian (born 1595 in literature)
December 28 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and grammarian (born 1575 in literature)
Unknown dates
- Balthazar Baro, French poet, dramatist and romance-writer (born 1596 in literature)
- İbrahim Peçevi, Ottoman historian (born 1572 in literature)
- Tukaram, Hindu poet

^ Rees, T. (1861). History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales.
^ De Grave, Kathleen (2006-05-31). "Anne Bradstreet". The Literary Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2012-04-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)