1531 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1531.

Events

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  • The first emblem book appears, the Emblemata ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), an unauthorized issue by the printer Heinrich Steyner in Augsburg, Bavaria, of Italian jurist Andrea Alciato's privately circulated Latin verses, accompanied by woodcuts.
  • Petrarch's poetry Trionfi (Triumphs) is first translated into French as Les Triomphes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New books

Prose

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book One
• Andrea Alciato – Emblemata
• Sir Thomas Elyot – The Boke Named the Governour (the first English work of moral philosophy)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – Discourses on Livy
• Paracelsus – Opus Paramirum (written in St. Gallen)
• Michael Servetus – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (On the Errors of the Trinity)
• William Turner – Template:Proper name (completed in 1568)

Drama

• Accademia degli Intronati – Gl' Ingannati

Poetry

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• Marguerite de Navarre – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Approximate date – John Skelton – Colin Clout<ref name=cocel>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• June 1 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist scholar (died 1584)
• October 7 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (died 1601)
• November 29 – Johannes Letzner, German historian (died 1613)
• Unknown date – Ercole Bottrigari, Italian poet, music theorist and publisher (died 1612)

Deaths

• October 11 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss theologian (born 1484; killed in Second War of Kappel)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• probable – Fernán Pérez de Oliva, Spanish linguist (born c. 1492)