1523 in literature

• June 9 – Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, without approval from the Paris Faculty of Theology.{{cite book|last1=Veyrin-Forrer|first1=Jeanne|editor1-last=schreiber|editor1-first=Fred|title=Simon de Colines: An annotated catalog of 230 examples of his press, 1520–1546|date=1995|publisher=Friends of the Brigham Young University Library|location=Provo, Utah|pages=xlix|chapter=Introduction}}
• Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII.

• Pietro Aron – {{lang|it|Thoscanello de la musica}}
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French
• Anthony Fitzherbert
• {{lang|fr|Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions}}
• The Boke of Husbandrie
• The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements
• Martin Luther
• {{lang|de|Das allte Testament Deutsch}}, translation of the Pentateuch into German
• The Adoration of the Sacrament ({{lang|de|Vom Anbeten des Sakraments des heiligen leichnams Christi}})
• Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation

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• Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date){{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}}
• Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale){{Cite book |author=Kurian, George Thomas |title=Timetables of World Literature |location=New York |publisher=Facts on File Inc |year=2003 |isbn=0-8160-4197-0}}
• John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel

• Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira)[http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/bv000111.pdf Original text. Retrieved 25 May 2020.]

• February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593){{cite book |last1= Favaro |first1= Antonio |authorlink= :it:Antonio Favaro |title= Carteggio inedito di Ticone Brahe: Giovanni Keplero e di altri celebri astronomi e matematici dei secoli XVI. e XVII. con Giovanni Antonio Magini, tratto dall'Archivio Malvezzi de' Medici in Bologna |url= https://archive.org/details/carteggioinedito00favauoft |date= 1886 |publisher= Nicola Zanichelli |location= Bologna |language= Italian |oclc= 559767244 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/carteggioinedito00favauoft/page/314 314]–315 }}
• February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571)
• March 16 – Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1572)
• March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (died 1575)
• unknown date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572)

• August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488)
• October – William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer (born 1465)
• unknown date – Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c. 1474)

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