1523 in literature explained

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.^[1]
• Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.

New books

• Pietro Aron – Italian: Thoscanello de la musica
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
• Anthony Fitzherbert
  • French: Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions
  • The Boke of Husbandrie
  • The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
• Martin Luther
  • German: Das allte Testament Deutsch, translation of the Pentateuch into German
  • The Adoration of the Sacrament (German: Vom Anbeten des Sakraments des heiligen leichnams Christi)
• Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation

New poetry

See main article: 1523 in poetry.

• Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)^[2]
• Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale)^[3]
• John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel^[2]

New drama

• Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira)^[4]

Births

• February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)^[5]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Veyrin-Forrer. Jeanne. schreiber. Fred. Simon de Colines: An annotated catalog of 230 examples of his press, 1520–1546. 1995. Friends of the Brigham Young University Library. Provo, Utah. xlix. Introduction.
2. Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
3. Book: Kurian, George Thomas . Timetables of World Literature . New York . Facts on File Inc . 2003 . 0-8160-4197-0.
4. http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/bv000111.pdf Original text. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
5. Book:

   . Favaro . Antonio . . Carteggio inedito di Ticone Brahe: Giovanni Keplero e di altri celebri astronomi e matematici dei secoli XVI. e XVII. con Giovanni Antonio Magini, tratto dall'Archivio Malvezzi de' Medici in Bologna . 1886 . Nicola Zanichelli . Bologna . Italian . 559767244 . 314–315 .