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Events from the year 1517 in literature.
Events
- August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.
- unknown dates
- John of Hauville's Architrenius (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
- Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino and (at about this date) the comedy Andria, adapted from Terence.
New books
Prose
- Martin Luther – Ninety-five Theses (in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum)
Drama
- Gil Vicente – A Trilogia das Barcas; part 1, Auto da Barca do Inferno
Poetry
- Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)
- John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng
Births
- June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)
- July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)
- unknown date – Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
- probable – Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)
Deaths
- June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician, second person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping (born c.1447)
- August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness; born 1478)