1523 in literature

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

Events

June 9 Ã¢ÂÂ Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques LefÃÂ¨vre d'ÃÂtaples, 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 Ã¢ÂÂ '

Jacques LefÃÂ¨vre d'ÃÂtaples Ã¢ÂÂ Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French

Anthony Fitzherbert

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The Boke of Husbandrie
The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
Martin Luther
, translation of the Pentateuch into German
The Adoration of the Sacrament (')

Maximilianus Transylvanus Ã¢ÂÂ De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the MagellanÃ¢ÂÂElcano circumnavigation

New poetry

Alexander Barclay Ã¢ÂÂ The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)

Hans Sachs Ã¢ÂÂ Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale)

John Skelton Ã¢ÂÂ The Garland of Laurel

New drama

Farsa de InÃÂªs Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira)

Births

February 13 Ã¢ÂÂ Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)

February 20 Ã¢ÂÂ Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571)

March 16 Ã¢ÂÂ Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1572)

March 21 Ã¢ÂÂ Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (died 1575)

unknown date Ã¢ÂÂ Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572)

Deaths

August 29 Ã¢ÂÂ Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488)

October Ã¢ÂÂ William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer (born 1465)

unknown date Ã¢ÂÂ Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c. 1474)

References