1525 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1525.

Events

July – Michelangelo is in the process of working on the Laurentian Library in Florence.
September – William Tyndale's New Testament translation into English is made, but printing in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces.
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* Printing of Huldrych Zwingli's New Testament 'Zürich Bible' translation into German by Christoph Froschauer begins.
*Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch first appears. It will be reprinted 29 times in this century.
*The anonymous early 14th-century poem King Alexander is first printed.

Pietro Bembo – Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua
Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt
Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will
Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae
Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
''The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed''

March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral singer, poet and playwright
Pir Roshan, Pashtun warrior poet
Jan van Casembroot, Flemish noble and poet
probable – Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof, German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator

May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German Protestant theologian, radical economist and poet
approximate year – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian resident in France