1513 in literature

Events

• *The Aldine Press editiones principes of Lycophron, Lysias, Pindar and Plato is published by Aldus Manutius in Venice. Aldus this year also publishes Strozii poëtae pater et filius, the collected poems of Tito Vespasiano Strozzi and his son Ercole Strozzi.
• *Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence by the House of Medici and writes The Prince as De Principatibus in Tuscany this summer.
• *Johannes Potken publishes the first Ge'ez text, Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, at Rome.
• *Gavin Douglas completes the Eneados, the first translation of Virgil's Aeneid into any of the Germanic languages - in this case, the Scots dialect of English. A Latin/English parallel text version of Ovid's Ars Amatoria made by "Walter" is also published this year by Wynkyn de Worde in London as The flores of Ouide de arte amandi with theyr englysshe afore them.
• Approximate year – John Skelton is appointed poet laureate by Henry VIII of England.

  New books

Prose

• Hakob Meghapart – Parzatumar

  Drama

• Juan del Encina – Plácida y Victoriano

  Poetry

• John Lydgate – Troy Book
• Mallanarya of Gubbi – Bhava Chintaratna
• John Skelton –

  Births

• February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Venetian writer, translator and cardinal
• October 30 – Jacques Amyot, French writer and translator
• December 23 – Thomas Smith, English scholar, diplomat and poet

  Deaths

• January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger
• unknown dates
• *Henry Bradshaw, English monk and poet
• *Robert Fabyan, English chronicler and sheriff
• *Hua Sui, Chinese pioneer of metal movable type printing