1524 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1524.
Events
- probable – Eyn Gespräch von dem gemaynen Schwabacher Kasten is published in Nuremberg, Germany, the first publication in the "Schwabacher" blackletter typeface.
New books
- Petrus Apianus – Cosmographicus liber
- Philippe de Commines – Mémoires
- Desiderius Erasmus – De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio
- Martin Luther and Paul Speratus – Etlich Cristlich Lider: Lobgesang un Psalm, the first Lutheran hymnal
- Martin Luther and others – Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbüchlein, two editions of a hymnal printed respectively by Johannes Loersfeld and Matthes Maler, including Luther's hymn "Christ lag in Todes Banden"
- Jacques Merlin – Quatuor concilium generalium Paris: Jean Cornilleau für Galliot du Pré
- Adam Ries – Coß
- Johann Walter – Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn, including Luther's chorale "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"
New poetry
- Robert Copland – ''Epilogue to the Syege of Rodes''
New drama
- Ludovico Ariosto – I suppositi
- Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Vom Papst und seiner Priesterschaft
- Niccolò Machiavelli – ''The Mandrake''
Births
- May 28 – Selim II, Ottoman Turkish sultan and poet
- September 11 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
- Unknown date – Thomas Tusser, English agriculturalist, poet and chorister
- Approximate year of birth
- *Luís de Camões, Portuguese national poet
- *Louise Labé, French poet
- *Girolamo Parabosco, Italian poet and musician
Deaths
- January 5 – Marko Marulić of Split, Croatian Christian humanist and poet
- January 7 – Tang Yin, Chinese scholar, poet and calligrapher
- October 20 – Thomas Linacre, English humanist scholar, grammarian and physician
- unknown date – Giovanni Aurelio Augurello, Italian humanist scholar and alchemist writing Latin poetry