1523 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.

Pietro Aron – Template:Lang
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
Anthony Fitzherbert
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- The Boke of Husbandrie
- The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
Martin Luther
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- The Adoration of the Sacrament (Template:Lang)
Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation

Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)<ref name=cocel>Template:Cite book</ref>
Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale)<ref name=gtktwl>Template:Cite book</ref>
John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel<ref name=cocel/>

February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)