1643 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643. Events May/June – René Descartes, having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia. June 16 – The Parliament of England issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press – the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year. August 1 – The first of Milton's divorce tracts is published, anonymously and unlicensed. unknown dates Cardinal Mazarin opens the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris to scholars. The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson. Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho). Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem – the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together. New books Prose Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici (first "authorized" edition, after two unauthorized in the previous year) Sir Kenelm Digby – Observations Upon Religio Medici Philip Hunton – A Treatise of Monarchie John Milton – Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Roger Williams – A Key into the Language of America Pedro Agerre (Axular) – Gero