1523 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1523.

New books

• Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
• Anthony Fitzherbert
  • Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions
  • The Boke of Husbandrie
  • The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
• Martin Luther
  • Das allte Testament Deutsch, translation of the Pentateuch into German
  • The Adoration of the Sacrament (Vom Anbeten des Sakraments des heiligen leichnams Christi)
• Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation

New poetry

Main article: 1523 in poetry

• Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translation of Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)
• Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall
• John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel

New drama

• Farsa de Inês Pereira

Births

• February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571)
• Approximate date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572)

Deaths

• August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488)
• Approximate date – Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c.1474)