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1517 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1517.

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Events

  • August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.
  • John of Hauville's Architrenius (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino (The [Golden] Ass).

    • Drama

  • A Trilogia das Barcas

    • Poetry

  • Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)
  • John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng

    • Births

  • July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)
  • Unknown dates
  • Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
  • Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)

    • Deaths

  • August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness, born 1478)

    • References

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