John Don Biography
Born: January 21, the author of a number of love verses, elegies, sonnets, epigrams, as well as religious sermons. John Donn was born on January 21 of the year in London in a Catholic family. His father, John Donn, was the headman of the London merchant workshop. Mother, Elizabeth Haywood, also came from the Catholic family, was the daughter of the playwright John Haywood and the grandchildren of Thomas Mora.
Family members, due to belonging to the Catholic Church, have repeatedly been persecuted by the authorities. The father died when his son was three years old. A few months later, Donna’s mother married John's rich widower ... Simingza. Donn was brought up in the spirit of Catholicism. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, but he did not receive a diploma there or there: there were restrictions introduced for Catholics.
Continued training at the Barristers School of Lincolns TIN. The brother of Donna Henry also studied here before his arrest in the year for providing asylum to the Catholic priest Henry Harrington. At the end of training, Donn led a multiple lifestyle, spent most of his inheritance. In the years he traveled to the European continent, participated in Walter Raley and Count Essex to Cadiz and the Azores’s military campaigns.
His first biographer Isaac Walton wrote in the year that Donn did not return immediately to England, and lived in Italy and Spain for several years, getting acquainted with laws and customs and studying the languages of these countries. Upon his return, Donn got a job as a secretary with an influential court, guardian of the royal press, Sir Thomas Edrton.
Falling in love with the niece of the cartridge, Anna Mor, secretly married her. When Edgerton found out about this, he kicked Donna and achieved his imprisonment. Freed from prison, Donn, together with Anna, settled on the estate of her relatives Pervor in the county of Sarrei. Only in the year, Anna's father recognized him with his son -in -law. Donn earned a living in a lawyer and was an assistant to Bishop Thomas Morton.
He was engaged in theology, carefully studied the doctrines of the Catholic and Anglican churches. At the same time, the poet joined the polemic with Catholics on the side of the Protestants, writing pamphlets “Pseudo -Martyr” and “Ignatius and his conclave” directed against the Order of the Jesuits. Jacob I drew attention to the polemic gift of Donna. The confident that Donna was destined to become a wonderful preacher, the king in every possible way rejected the request of the poet’s patrons to provide him with a secular position.
In the year, Donn creates an “anatomy of the world”, in the year - “development of the soul”. Twice in the years, Donn becomes a deputy of the parliament. His family is growing rapidly - for a number of years, Anna has been born almost annually on a child. Donn experienced serious material difficulties. The reasons for the transition of Donna to the Anglican faith are unknown, probably this was the result of the spiritual crisis experienced by him.
The death of the children of the daughter and son accelerated the adoption of an important decision for him. In the XVII sleep from the cycle “Pious Sonnet” dedicated to the memory of his wife, commentators see the evidence that it was Anna that helped Donna to find mental balance after a break with the Catholic Church. In January, the poet was ordained a deacon, then a priest.
He regularly read the sermons in Lincolns TIN, three churches of his parish and, for special occasions in the homes of friends.
In August, Anna gave birth to a dead child and died five days after childbirth. In the year, Donn receives the degree of doctor of theology of the University of Cambridge. In the year, Viscount Doncaster is accompanied by a diplomatic mission to Germany. Returning to England in the year. He had a reputation as an eloquent preacher with the gift of belief. Donn died on March 31 of the year.
The sculptural version of this portrait is installed above the Donna grave in St. Paul's Cathedral. Detailed biography.