Timeline May 1609

Events in May 1609 2

• 1557 – 1609 Giovanni Croce Venetian Renaissance composer Giovanni Croce was a Venetian composer and priest whose sacred music and madrigals were widely published and performed throughout Europe in the late Renaissance.
• 1609 Sonnets published Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are published by Thomas Thorpe, probably without Shakespeare's direct involvement, as Shakespeare's Sonnets. The dedication — "To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets Mr W.H." — remains one of literature's great unsolved mysteries. The sequence is addressed to a beautiful young man, a dark lady, and a rival poet; their relationships, and the poet's shifting positions toward all three, constitute the most searching lyric sequence in the English language.