1764 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• October 15 - While visiting Rome, Edward Gibbon observes a group of barefoot friars singing vespers in the ruined Temple of Jupiter, a sight which inspires him to begin work on a history that will be published as The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

New Books

• Bywyd a Marwolaeth Theomemphus (Welsh language) - William Williams Pantycelyn
• The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• The Nun: An Elegy - Edward Jerningham
• The Surprises of Love - John Cleland

Births

• July 9 : Ann Radcliffe

Deaths