1516 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1516.

Events

March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel. This year Erasmus also writes The Education of a Christian Prince although it is not published until 1532.
c. December – Thomas More's Utopia, combining fiction and political philosophy and completed this year, is published in Leuven in Latin.
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- Samuel Nedivot's the 14th century Hebrew Sefer Abudirham in Fez is the first book printed in Africa.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Paolo Ricci translates the 13th century Kabbalistic work Sha'are Orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla into Latin, as Portae Lucis.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Bartolomé de las Casas – Memorial de Remedios para las Indias
Erasmus – Novum Instrumentum omne
Robert Fabyan (anonymous; died c. 1512) – The New Chronicles of England and France (published by Richard Pynson in London)
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Thomas More – Utopia
Andre Pauernfeindt – Template:Lang (Foundation of the knightly art of combat by the fencing guild of Vienna)

Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso (first version, April)
Baptista Mantuanus (published in France)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Agellaria
- De sacris diebus (published in Lyon)

March 26 – Conrad Ges(s)ner, Swiss naturalist, bibliographer and poet (died 1565)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Saxon historian, classical archaeologist and epigrapher and poet (died 1571)
December 21 – Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Parmese-born poet and dramatist (died c. 1590)

March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, Mantuan Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin poet (born 1447)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer and chronicler (born 1462)