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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1523.
Events
- June 9 – Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, without approval from the Paris Faculty of Theology.
- Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.
New books
- Pietro Aron – '
- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
- Anthony Fitzherbert
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- The Boke of Husbandrie
- The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
- Martin Luther
- , translation of the Pentateuch into German
- The Adoration of the Sacrament (')
- Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation
New poetry
- Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date)
- Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale)
- John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel
Births
- February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593)
- February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571)
- March 16 – Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1572)
- March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (died 1575)
- unknown date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572)
Deaths
- August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488)
- October – William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer (born 1465)
- unknown date – Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c. 1474)