1523 in literature
# 1523 in literature

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

## 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

* 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)
