1527 in poetry

Works published

• Pietro Aretino, Sonetti Lussuriosi ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures"), to accompany an edition of Raimondi's erotic engravings, I Modi, Italy
• John Skelton, , publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want", England
• Gian Travers, Chianzun dalla guerra dagl Chiaste da Müs, Putèr variety of Romansh language, Switzerland
• Marco Girolamo Vida, also known as "Hieronymus Vida", Italy:
  • De arte poetica ("The Art of Poetry"), tract on poetic theory partly inspired by Horace
  • Scacchia, Ludus ("The Game of Chess"), about the creation of chess as a way for the mythological Greek god Mercury to win over Caissa; involves a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods; a 658-line poem in Virgilian hexameters, translated into many languages over the centuries (an unauthorized, 742-line version appears in 1525 with some different names; in 1763 the English author and poet Sir William Jones publishes another chess poem involving the characters of Mercury and Caissa)

Births

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• Luis de Leon (died 1591), Spanish mystic and poet
• Łukasz Górnicki, (died 1603), Polish humanist, writer, poet, secretary and chancellor of Sigismund August of Poland

Deaths

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• Andrea Fulvio (born 1470), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian
• Niccolò Machiavelli (born 1469), Italian philosopher, writer, poet, musician, and politician
• Šiško Menčetić (born 1457), Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
• Panfilo Sasso (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Kurian, George Thomas. (2003). "Timetables of World Literature". Facts on File Inc..
3. (1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics". MJF Books/Fine Communications.