1513 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1513.

Events

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*The Aldine Press editiones principes of Lycophron, Lysias, Pindar and Plato is published by Aldus Manutius in Venice. Aldus this year also publishes Strozii poëtae pater et filius, the collected poems of Tito Vespasiano Strozzi and his son Ercole Strozzi.
*Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence by the House of Medici and writes The Prince as De Principatibus in Tuscany this summer.
*Johannes Potken publishes the first Ge'ez text, Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, at Rome.
*Gavin Douglas completes the Eneados, the first translation of Virgil's Aeneid into any of the Germanic languages - in this case, the Scots dialect of English. A Latin/English parallel text version of Ovid's Ars Amatoria made by "Walter" is also published this year by Wynkyn de Worde in London as The flores of Ouide de arte amandi with theyr englysshe afore them.
Approximate year – John Skelton is appointed poet laureate by Henry VIII of England.