1522 in literature

Events

• September 21 – Luther Bible: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek, Das newe Testament Deutzsch, is published in Germany, selling thousands in the first few weeks.
• Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century compilation Romance of the Three Kingdoms is first printed, as Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi.

  New books

Prose

• Desiderius Erasmus – Novum Testamentum
• Martin Luther – Against Henry, King of the English
• Adam Ries – Rechenung auff der Linihen und Federn

  Drama

• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Vom Papst und Christi Gegensatz
• The World and the Child

  Poetry

• Thomas Murner – Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren

  Births

• February – Jean de Nostredame, Provençal historian
• June 1 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch classical scholar
• unknown dates
• *Joachim du Bellay, French poet
• *Siôn Tudur, Welsh poet

  Deaths

• January 25 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian humanist historian and theologian
• February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar
• June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist scholar and poet
• September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop