1525 in literature

Events

• Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch first appears. It will be reprinted 29 times in this century.
• The anonymous early 14th-century poem King Alexander is first printed.
• William Tyndale's New Testament translation into English is made, but printing in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces.
• The Laurentian Library in Florence is designed by Michelangelo.

  New books

Prose

• Pietro Bembo – :it:Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua|Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua
• Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt
• Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
• Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will
• Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae
• Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
• The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed

  Drama

• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Der Ablasskrämer
• Niccolò Machiavelli – Clizia

  Poetry

Births

• March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral singer, poet and playwright
• Pir Roshan, Pashtun warrior poet
• Jan van Casembroot, Flemish noble and poet
• probable
• *Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof, German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator
• *Louise Labé, French poet

  Deaths

• May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German Protestant theologian, radical economist and poet
• approximate year – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian resident in France