1514 in literature

• May 15 – The earliest printed edition of Saxo Grammaticus' 12th-century Scandinavian history Gesta Danorum, edited by Christiern Pedersen from an original found near Lund, is published as Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
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• Gregorio de Gregorii begins printing Kitab Salat al-Sawa'i (a Christian book of hours), the first known book printed in the Arabic alphabet using movable type, in Venice, falsely assigned to Fano.{{cite web|first=Jeremy|last=Norman|title=The First Book Printed in Arabic by Movable Type (1514–1517)|work=History of Information|url=http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=402|accessdate=2014-12-01}}
• Clément Marot presents his poem Judgment of Minos to Francis I of France and begins styling himself facteur de la reine ("queen's poet") to Queen Claude.{{cite book|author=Clement Marot|title=Oeuvres, annotees, ... et precedees de la vie de Clement Marot par Charles d'Hericault|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiGtBRe1e24C&pg=PR42|year=1867|publisher=Garnier|pages=42}}

• Desiderius Erasmus (attributed) – Julius Excluded from Heaven (Julius exclusus de caelis)

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• February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Italian humanist polymath, writer and translator (died 1570){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/daniele-matteo-alvise-barbaro_(Dizionario-Biografico) |title=BARBARO, Daniele Matteo Alvise |first=Giuseppe |last=Alberigo |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |language=it |volume=6 |year=1964}}
• November 29 – Andreas Musculus, German theologian (died 1581){{cite book|author1=Ronald K. Rittgers|author2=Vincent Evener|title=Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8KODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|date=14 March 2019|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-39318-9|pages=201–}}
• unknown date – Al-Akhdari, Arabic poet (died 1546)

• October 7 – Bernardo Rucellai, Florentine historian (born 1448)
• November 28 - Hartmann Schedel, German humanist historian and cartographer (born 1440)
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• Peter Crockaert, Flemish philosopher{{cite book|author1=Kenneth R. Mills|author2=William B. Taylor|author3=Sandra Lauderdale Graham|title=Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jssW4BK6h7cC&pg=PA65|year=2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8420-2997-1|pages=65}}
• Nicolaus Ragvaldi, Swedish monk and translator

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