1523 in literature

Overview of the events of 1523 in literature

Overview of the events of 1523 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1523.

## Events[edit]

* June 9 – Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, without approval from the Paris Faculty of Theology.[1]
* Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.

## New books[edit]

* Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica
* Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
* Anthony Fitzherbert
* Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions
* The Boke of Husbandrie
* The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
* Martin Luther
* Das allte Testament Deutsch, translation of the Pentateuch into German
* The Adoration of the Sacrament (Vom Anbeten des Sakraments des heiligen leichnams Christi)
* Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation

## New poetry[edit]

Main article: 1523 in poetry

* Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)[2]
* Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale)[3]
* John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel[2]

## New drama[edit]

* Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira)[4]

## Births[edit]

* February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)[5]
* February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571)
* March 16 – Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1572)
* March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (died 1575)
* unknown date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572)

## Deaths[edit]

* August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488)
* October – William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer (born 1465)
* unknown date – Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c. 1474)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Veyrin-Forrer, Jeanne (1995). "Introduction". In schreiber, Fred (ed.). Simon de Colines: An annotated catalog of 230 examples of his press, 1520–1546. Provo, Utah: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library. pp. xlix.
2. ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. ^ Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
4. ^ Original text. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
5. ^ Favaro, Antonio [in Italian] (1886). Carteggio inedito di Ticone Brahe: Giovanni Keplero e di altri celebri astronomi e matematici dei secoli XVI. e XVII. con Giovanni Antonio Magini, tratto dall'Archivio Malvezzi de' Medici in Bologna (in Italian). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. pp. 314–315. OCLC 559767244.