1528 in literature

Events

• October 2 – William Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man is printed in Antwerp for clandestine distribution in England.

  New books

• Baltissare Castiglione – The Book of the Courtier
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Ancien Testament
• Francisco Delicado –
• Desiderius Erasmus – Ciceronianus
• Jean Fernel – Cosmotheoria
• Martin Luther – Confession Concerning Christ's Supper
• William Tyndale – The Obedience of a Christian Man

  New drama

• Ludovico Ariosto
• *:it:La Lena|La Lena
• *:it:Il Negromante|Il Negromante

  New poetry

• Anna Bijns – Refrains

  Births

• November 2 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, born Peter Lotz, German scholar and Latin poet
• unknown dates
• *Rémy Belleau, French poet
• *Birbal, born Maheshdas Bhat, Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court
• *Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet
• *Henri Estienne, French printer and classical scholar
• *António Ferreira, Portuguese poet
• *Atagi Fuyuyasu, Japanese samurai and poet
• *Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet
• *Thomas Whythorne, English composer and autobiographer

  Deaths

• March 10 – Balthasar Hubmaier, German Anabaptist theologian
• November 17 – Jakob Wimpfeling, humanist and theologian
• unknown dates
• *Al-Birjandi, Persian scientist
• *Richard Hyrde, English scholar and translator
• *Erhard Ratdolt, German printer
• probable – Giorgio Anselmo, Italian physician and Latin poet