1523 in literature

Events

• 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.
• Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.

New books

• 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

Main article: 1523 in poetry

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

New drama

• Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira)

Births

• February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)
• 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

• 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

References

1. (1995). "Simon de Colines: An annotated catalog of 230 examples of his press, 1520–1546". Friends of the Brigham Young University Library.
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. Kurian, George Thomas. (2003). "Timetables of World Literature". Facts on File Inc.
4. [http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/bv000111.pdf Original text. Retrieved 25 May 2020.]
5. (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". Nicola Zanichelli.