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1527 literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1527.
Events
June 23 – Paracelsus burns books of Avicenna.
New books
Prose
Hector Boece – Historia ScotorumBroun 2014 695
Philippe de Commines – Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7–8)
Hans Sachs and Andreas Osiander – Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babsttumb, wie es ihm biz an das endt der welt gehen sol ("A wonderful prophecy of the papacy about how things will go for it up until the end of the world")
Poetry
1527 in poetry
Pietro Aretino – Sonetti Lussuriosi ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures", to accompany an edition of Raimondi's erotic engravings, I Modi)Jacobs 2000 53
Births
July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astrologer and antiquary (died 1608 or 1609)
Unknown dates
Luis de León, Spanish mystic and lyric poet (died 1591)Ford 1899 268
Łukasz Górnicki, Polish humanist and poet (died 1603)Arciszewska 2019 651
Iacob Heraclid, Maltese-born humanist and military theorist (died 1563)
Deaths
c. May 6?September 2026 – Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligrapher and type designerPulido-Rull 2012 102 (born 1475)
June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher, writer, poet, musician and politician (born 1469)Gallieni 2007 896
June 25 – Šiško Menčetić, Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman (born 1457)Kiparsky 1975 373
October 27 – Johann Froben, printer and publisher in Switzerland (b. c.1460)Hilgert 1971 141
Unknown dates
Andrea Fulvio, Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian (born 1470)Beckmann 2002 353, footnote 24
Unknown year (or 1528) – Richard Methley, English Dominican writer and translator (born c. 1451)Piehler Woollam 1997 195
References
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Arciszewska Barbara 2019 Early Modern Conceptualizations of Medieval History and Their Impact on Residential Architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture Enenkel Karl A.E. Ottenheym Konrad A. Brill Intersections 60 1568-1181 978-9-00437-821-6 2018039000 10.1163/j.ctvbqs5nk.29 free 649–682
Beckmann Martin Autumn–Winter 2002 The "Columnae Coc(h)lides" of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius Phoenix 56 3–4 348–357 1192605 10.2307/1192605
Broun Dauvit Summer 2014 Dan Embree, Edward Donald Kennedy, Kathleen Daly, eds. Short Prose Scottish Chronicles (review) Renaissance Quarterly 7 2 694–696 10.1086/677501 10.1086/677501
Ford J.D.M. 1899 Luis De León, the Spanish Poet, Humanist, and Mystic PMLA 4 2 267–278 456575 free 10.2307/456575 free
Gallieni M Machiavelli and urinalysis October 2007 Kidney International 72 7 896-7 0085-2538 210112359 10.1038/sj.ki.5002496 17882245
Hilgert Earle April 1971 Johann Froben and the Basel University Scholars, 1513-1523 The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 41 2 141–169 10.1086/619934 4306069
Jacobs Fredrika H. March 2000 Aretino and Michelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia The Art Bulletin 2 1 51–67 3051364 10.2307/3051364
Kiparsky Valentin 1975 Jukka Hyrkkänen, Der lexikalische Einfluß des Italienischen auf das Kroatische des 16. Jahrhunderts. Die italienischen Lehnwörter im Sprachgebrauch der dalmatinischen Kroaten im Licht der kroatischen Renaissance-Literatur. Helsinki 1973 (Helsingin yliopiston monistuspalvelu 1973, 637 Seiten). (review) Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie de 38 2 373–375 24002161 de
Piehler Paul Woollam Angela Winter 1997 English Mystics of the Middle Ages. Edited by Barry Windeatt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. ISBN 0-521-32741-7. Pp xi + 311. No price available. (review) Christianity and Literature 46 2 195–198 10.1177/014833319704600210 44312581
Pulido-Rull Ana Christopher Brown Necipoğlu Gülru 2012 A Pronouncement of Alliance: An Anonymous Illustrated Venetian Manuscript for Sultan Süleyman Muqarnas 29 101–150 10.1163/22118993-90000185 23350364