1525 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1525.

Events

• July – Michelangelo is in the process of working on the Laurentian Library in Florence.
• September – William Tyndale's New Testament translation into English is made, but printing in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces. (Copies reach England in 1526.)
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• Printing of Huldrych Zwingli's New Testament 'Zürich Bible' translation into German by Christoph Froschauer begins.
• Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch first appears. It will be reprinted 29 times in this century.
• The anonymous early 14th-century poem King Alexander is first printed.

New books

Prose

• Pietro Bembo – ' (Prose della volgar lingua)
• Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (literally, "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"; also known as The Four Books on Measurement or The Painter's Manual)
• Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
• Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio)
• Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae (On the Seven Points of Christian Idolatry)
• Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (Report on the First Voyage Around the World; partial publication in Paris)
• The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed