1529 in literature

Events

• Paracelsus starts to write Paragranum.

  New books

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus
• Simon Fish – A Supplicacyon for the Beggers
• Hans Luft – A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a Husbandman
• Martin Luther
• *Luther's Small Catechism
• *On War Against the Turk
• Philipp Melanchthon – Commentary on the Colossians
• Thomas More – A Supplication of Souls
• John Rastell – The Pastyme of People, the Chronydes of dyvers Realmys and most specially of the Realme of England

  Births

• February 23 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian and antiquary
• June 7 – Étienne Pasquier, French poet and author
• December 11 – Fulvio Orsini, Italian humanist historian
• Unknown date – George Puttenham, English writer and critic

  Deaths

• February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian poet and author
• June 21 – John Skelton, English poet
• Unknown dates
• *Richard Pynson, French-born English printer
• *Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian