1751 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1751. Events May 19 – Demetrio, an opera based on lyrics by court poet Pietro Metastasio, with music by Davide Perez, is performed at Teatro San Samuele in Venice. In the same year, in Vienna, Metastasio writes the poem, Il rè pastore, later used by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to compose an opera seria. June 28 – The first volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is published. undated The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse becomes the first formally published modern cookbook in English. John Smith & Son's bookshop is established in Glasgow. It will claim to be the oldest surviving bookseller in the English-speaking world. New books Fiction John Cleland – Memoirs of a Coxcomb Francis Coventry – The History of Pompey the Little Henry Fielding – Amelia (published December dated 1752) Eliza Haywood (anonymously) – The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless Robert Paltock – The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man Tobias Smollett – The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Voltaire – Micromégas. Histoire philosophique