1517 in literature

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Events from the year 1517 in literature.

Events[]

August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.
unknown dates
- 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.^[1]
- Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino (The [Golden] Ass) and (at about this date) the comedy Andria, adapted from Terence.

Martin Luther – Ninety-five Theses (in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum)

Gil Vicente – A Trilogia das Barcas; part 1, Auto da Barca do Inferno^[2]^[3]

Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)^[4]
John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng^[4]^[5]

June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)^[6]
July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)^[7]
unknown date – Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
probable – Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)^[8]

June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician, second person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping (born c.1447)^[9]
August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness; born 1478)^[10]

^ "Review of Architrenius by Johannes de Hauvilla, translation by Walter Weatherbee". The Review of English Studies. Oxford University Press. 48 (189): 79. 1997. Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ Carlos Ferrer Plaza; Joelma Santana Siqueira (1 December 2015). Escrever, editar, publicar e ler: Colóquio internacional de literatura Íbero-americana. CILIBAM. p. 110. ISBN 978-85-8179-088-6.
^ Constantine Christopher Stathatos (2001). A Gil Vicente Bibliography, 1995-2000. Edition Reichenberger. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-935004-31-2.
^ ^a ^b Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
^ Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
^ Florkin, Marcel (2008). Dodoens (Dodonaeus), Rembert. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
^ Walter William Rouse Ball (1893). A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. Macmillan. p. 230.
^ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (17 November 2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-1-909496-43-9.
^ Italian Journal. Italian Academy Foundation. 1989. p. 34.
^ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.