1527 in poetry

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• Pietro Aretino, Sonetti Lussuriosi ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures"), to accompany an edition of Raimondi's erotic engravings, I Modi, Italy
• John Skelton, {{sic|hide=y|Skelton Laureate Agaynste a Comely Coystrowne}}, publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want", England{{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}}
• Gian Travers, Chianzun dalla guerra dagl Chiaste da Müs, Putèr variety of Romansh language, Switzerland
• Marco Girolamo Vida, also known as "Hieronymus Vida", Italy:
• De arte poetica ("The Art of Poetry"), tract on poetic theory{{cite book|last=Kurian|first=George Thomas|title=Timetables of World Literature|location=New York|publisher=Facts on File Inc.|year=2003|isbn=0-8160-4197-0}} partly inspired by Horace{{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}}
• Scacchia, Ludus ("The Game of Chess"), about the creation of chess as a way for the mythological Greek god Mercury to win over Caissa; involves a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods; a 658-line poem in Virgilian hexameters, translated into many languages over the centuries (an unauthorized, 742-line version appears in 1525 with some different names; in 1763 the English author and poet Sir William Jones publishes another chess poem involving the characters of Mercury and Caissa)

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Luis de Leon (died 1591), Spanish mystic and poet
• Łukasz Górnicki, (died 1603), Polish humanist, writer, poet, secretary and chancellor of Sigismund August of Poland

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Andrea Fulvio (born 1470), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian
• Niccolò Machiavelli (born 1469), Italian philosopher, writer, poet, musician, and politician
• Šiško Menčetić (born 1457), Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
• Panfilo Sasso (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet

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