1523 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1523.Events
- June 9 – Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorr in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, without approval from the Paris Faculty of Theology.
New books
- Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica
- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
- Anthony Fitzherbert
- *Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions
- *The Boke of Husbandrie
- *The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
- Martin Luther
- *Das allte Testament Deutsch, translation of the Pentateuch into German
- *The Adoration of the Sacrament
- Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation
New poetry
- Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus
- Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall
- John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel
New drama
- Farsa de Inês Pereira
Births
- February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
- February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer
- March 16 – Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England
- March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian
- unknown date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath
Deaths
- August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer
- October – William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer
- unknown date – Stephen Hawes, English poet
