1522 in literature
# 1522 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1522.

## Events

* September 21 – Luther Bible: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek, Das newe Testament Deutzsch, is published in Germany, selling thousands in the first few weeks.
* Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century compilation Romance of the Three Kingdoms is first printed, as Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi.

## New books

### Prose

* Desiderius Erasmus – Novum Testamentum (Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament, third edition)
* Martin Luther – Against Henry, King of the English (Contra Henricum Regem Anglie)
* Adam Ries – Rechenung auff der Linihen und Federn

### Drama

* Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Vom Papst und Christi Gegensatz
* The World and the Child (Mundus et Infans, published)

### Poetry

* Thomas Murner – Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren ("Of the Great Lutheran Fool")

## Births

* February – Jean de Nostredame, Provençal historian (died c.1576)
* June 1 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch classical scholar (died 1590)
* unknown dates
   * Joachim du Bellay, French poet (died 1560)
   * Siôn Tudur, Welsh poet (died 1602)

## Deaths

* January 25 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian humanist historian and theologian (born 1451)
* February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar (born c. 1468)
* June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist scholar and poet (born 1455)
* September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (born c. 1474)
