1511 in literature

• probable – Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein Leben volbracht hat... is published by the printer Hans Grüninger in Strasbourg in Early New High German, either this year or in 1510.{{cite book|author=Richard Ernest Walker|title=Ulrich Von Hutten's Arminius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_49YAk5L00C&pg=PA101|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03911-338-5|pages=101}} This is the first appearance of the trickster Till Eulenspiegel in print.

• The Demaũdes Joyous (joke book published by Wynkyn de Worde in English)
• Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus), written 1509

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• Jean Lemaire de Belges – La Concorde des deux langages{{Cite book |chapter=Jean Lemaire de Belges |page=[https://archive.org/details/newoxfordcompani00fran/page/453 453] |editor=France, Peter |title=The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-866125-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newoxfordcompani00fran/page/453}}
• John Lydgate (died c. 1451) – The Governance of Kings ("Secrets of the Old Philisoffres", translated from Aristotle's Secreta secretorum){{Cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Cancionero general (anthology of Spanish poetry published by Hernando del Castillo){{Cite book |author1=Preminger, Alex |author2=Brogan, T. V. F. |title=The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |year=1993 |location=New York |publisher=MJF Books/Fine Communications|display-authors=etal}}

• November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet writing in Latin (died 1536)

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• Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)
• Johannes Tinctoris (Jean de Vaerwere), Low Countries' composer, poet and writer on music, author of Diffinitorium musices, the first dictionary of musical terms (born c. 1435)

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