1532 in literature

Events

• unknown dates
• *The First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
• *William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England.
• *First edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
• *Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry.

  New books

Prose

• Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch
• Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi
• Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince
• Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
• François Rabelais – Pantagruel
• Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea

  Poetry

• Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine

  Births

• February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade
• November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet
• Unknown dates
• *Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade
• *Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter
• Probable year
• *Thomas Norton, English politician and poet
• *Tulsidas, Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher

  Deaths

• August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German abbess and chronicler
• unknown date – Thomas Arthur, dramatist