1517 in literature

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

New books

Prose

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

Drama

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

Poetry

• 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]

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)[6]

References

1. "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.
2. 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.
3. Constantine Christopher Stathatos (2001). A Gil Vicente Bibliography, 1995-2000. Edition Reichenberger. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-935004-31-2.
4. Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
5. Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
6. "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.