1525 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1525.

Events

• Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch which will be reprinted 29 times this century, is first published.^[1]
• First printing of the anonymous early 14th century poem King Alexander.^[2]
• William Tyndale's New Testament Bible translation into English is made; it will be published in 1526.
• Laurentian Library in Florence designed by Michelangelo.

New books

• Pietro Bembo – Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (Prose della volgar lingua)
• Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (literally, "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"; also known as The Four Books on Measurement or The Painter's Manual)
• Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
• Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio)
• Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae
• Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo ("Report on the First Voyage Around the World"; partial publication in Paris)
• The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed

New poetry

New drama

• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Der Ablasskrämer
• Niccolò Machiavelli – Clizia

Births

• March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral singer, poet and playwright (died 1566)
• Pir Roshan (بايزيد انصاري), Pashtun warrior poet (died 1582/5)
• Jan van Casembroot, Flemish noble and poet (died 1568)
• Approximate date
  • Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof, German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator (died c.1602)
  • Louise Labé, French poet (died 1566)

Deaths

• May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German Protestant theologian, radical economist and poet (born c.1489) (executed)
• Approximate date – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian resident in France (born c.1473)

References

1. Kennedy, William J. (1999). "Petrarchan poetics". In Kennedy, George Alexander; et al. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-521-30008-8. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.