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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1521.

Events

  • January 3 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther, by the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
  • January 14 – Martin Luther writes to Johann von Staupitz, saying that he has burned the papal bull.
  • February 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga arrives in Rome to campaign against Erasmus; later in the year he publishes an account of his journey from Spain.
  • June (probably 29 or 30) – Neacșu's letter, the oldest surviving dateable document written primarily in the Romanian language (in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet), is approximately dated to this month.
  • August 13 – Marko Marulić's poem Judita (Judith, written 1501), a landmark in Croatian literature, is printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto.

200px|thumb|[[Marko Marulić's Judita]]

  • unknown date – John Siberch is active in Cambridge, the city's earliest known printer.

New books

Prose

  • Codex Ňuu Tnoo - Ndisi Nuu
  • Jacopo Berengario da Carpi – Commentaria cum amplissimus additionibus super anatomiam Mundini (published in Bologna), containing the first printed anatomical illustrations taken from nature
  • Goražde Psalter
  • Henry VIII of England – Defence of the Seven Sacraments (Assertio Septem Sacramentorum)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli – The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra)
  • Piri Reis – Kitab-ı Bahriye

Poetry

  • Alexander Barclay – The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog"
  • Henry Bradshaw – The Life of St. Werburgh

Approximate year

  • (A Book of a Ghostly Father, published in London by Wynkyn de Worde)

Births

  • May 8 – Peter Canisius, German theologian (died 1597)
  • unknown dates
  • Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder, English statesman and poet (died 1565)
  • Xu Wei (徐渭), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist (died 1593)
  • probable
  • Anne Askew, English poet and Protestant martyr (burned at the stake 1546)
  • Jorge de Montemor, Portuguese novelist and poet writing in Spanish (died 1561)
  • Pontus de Tyard, French poet and priest, a member of La Pléiade (died 1605)

Deaths

  • May 10 – Sebastian Brant, German satirical poet and humanist (born c. 1457)
  • unknown date– Jean Bourdichon, French illuminator of manuscripts (born 1457/9)

References