1517 in poetry

Events

• Niccolò Machiavelli writes ''L'asino''

Works published

• Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems, including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions
• Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius
• Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe
• John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem about tavern life; Great Britain

Births

• July 25 - Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet
• Bargeo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Approximate date
• * Robert Crowley, English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
• * Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat and poet

Deaths

• August - Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Gerolamo Bologni, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Cornelio Paolo Amalteo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Girolamo Amaseo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Approximate date - Fausto Andrelino, Italian, Latin-language poet