1533 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1533.Events
Prose
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Books 2 & 3
- Antoine Marcourt – Le Livre des marchans
- Approximate year
- *Young Man of Arévalo
- *Brief Compendium of our Sacred Law and Sunna
- *Tafsira
Drama
- John Heywood
- *The Merry Play between Johan Johan the Husband, Tyb his Wife, and Sir Johan, the Priest
- *The Mery Play between the Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte
- *The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers
- *The Play of Love
Poetry
Births
- January 2 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian
- January 3 – Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza, Spanish friar, bishop and homiletic writer
- June 6 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician, polymath and writer
- August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet
- Unknown dates
- *Eknath, Marathi language religious poet in the Hindu tradition of India
- *Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer
- *Andrea Rapicio, Italian poet writing in Latin
- *Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet
- * – Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Dutch cartographer
Deaths
- July 6 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet also writing Latin verse
- November 6 or 11 – Pieter Gillis, Flemish humanist, printer and Antwerp city official
- Unknown date – Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher writing in Latin
