1516 in literature

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• March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel. This year Erasmus also writes The Education of a Christian Prince although it is not published until 1532.
• c. December – Thomas More's Utopia, combining fiction and political philosophy and completed this year, is published in Leuven in Latin.
• unknown dates
• Samuel Nedivot's the 14th century Hebrew Sefer Abudirham in Fez is the first book printed in Africa.{{Cite web |title=First Book in Africa |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/Africa.html |work=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=2014-12-01}}
• Paolo Ricci translates the 13th century Kabbalistic work Sha'are Orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla into Latin, as Portae Lucis.{{cite book|author=Stephen G. Burnett|title=Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rl96-_JKQvkC&pg=PA105|date=5 January 2012|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-22248-0|pages=105}}

• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
• {{lang|la|Dialogus de homine}} (published in Casale)
• {{lang|la|De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum}}
• Bartolomé de las Casas – Memorial de Remedios para las Indias
• Erasmus – Novum Instrumentum omne
• Robert Fabyan (anonymous; died c. 1512) – The New Chronicles of England and France (published by Richard Pynson in London)
• Marsilio Ficino – {{lang|la|De triplici vita}}
• Thomas More – Utopia
• Andre Pauernfeindt – {{lang|de|Ergründung der ritterlichen kunst des fechtens durch freyfechter czu Vienn}} (Foundation of the knightly art of combat by the fencing guild of Vienna)

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• Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso (first version, April)
• Baptista Mantuanus (published in France){{Cite book |last=Mantuanus |first=Baptista |url=https://archive.org/details/ecloguesbaptist01mustgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/ecloguesbaptist01mustgoog/page/n58 52] |quote=Eclogues of Mantuan |title=The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus |editor=Mustard, Wilfred Pirt |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |location=Baltimore, MD |year=1911 |accessdate=2009-05-17}}
• Agellaria
• De sacris diebus (published in Lyon)

• March 26 – Conrad Ges(s)ner, Swiss naturalist, bibliographer and poet (died 1565){{cite book|author=George Robert Gleig|title=The family history of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f3cBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR31|year=1836|pages=31}}
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Saxon historian, classical archaeologist and epigrapher and poet (died 1571)
• December 21 – Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Parmese-born poet and dramatist (died c. 1590)

• March 22 – Baptista Mantuanus, Mantuan Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin poet (born 1447){{cite book|author1=Charles George Herbermann|author2=Edward Aloysius Pace|author3=Condé Bénoist Pallen|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbFAAQAAIAAJ|year=1912|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|page=296}}
• December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer and chronicler (born 1462)

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