1515 in literature

• Christoph Froschauer becomes the first printer in Zürich.

• Martin of Arles – {{lang|la|Tractatus de superstitionibus, contra maleficia seu sortilegia quae hodie vigent in orbe terrarum}}

• c. 1514–15 – Gian Giorgio Trissino – Sophonisba

{{main|1515 in poetry}}

• Alexander Barclay (translated from Baptista Mantuanus) – Saint George{{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}}
• John of Capistrano – Capystranus (published in London)
• Approximate year – Stephen Hawes – {{sic|hide=y|The Comforte of Lovers}}

• March 28 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite mystic, saint and poet (died 1582)
• Unknown dates
• Nicolas Denisot, French poet and painter (died 1559)
• Brne Karnarutić, Croatian poet and writer (died 1573)
• Ambrosius Lobwasser, Saxon humanist, translator and psalmist (died 1585)
• Johann Weyer, Dutch occultist (died 1588)
• probable
• Roger Ascham, English scholar (died 1568){{cite book | first=George Godfrey | last=Cunningham | author-link=George Godfrey Cunningham|title=The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SkcBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA739|year=1863|publisher=A. Fullarton & Company|pages=739}}
• William Baldwin, English writer, editor and theatrical director (died c. 1563)

• February 16 – Aldus Manutius, Italian printer-publisher and poet (born 1449){{cite book|author=Edward Robertson|title=Aldus Manutius, the Scholar-printer, 1450-1515|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3EHyQEACAAJ|year=1950|publisher=John Rylands Library}}
• unknown date Jacques Almain, French theologian (year of birth unknown){{cite journal|author=P. Rouleau|title=Jean Marre, évêque de Condom (1436-1521)|language=fr|journal=Revue de Gascogne|year=1930|volume=XXV|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5743401h/f64}}

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