1527 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1527.
Events
- June 23 – Paracelsus burns books of Avicenna.
New books
Prose
- Hector Boece – Historia Scotorum
- Philippe de Commines – Mémoires
- Hans Sachs and Andreas Osiander – ''Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babsttumb, wie es ihm biz an das endt der welt gehen sol''
Poetry
- Pietro Aretino – ''Sonetti Lussuriosi''
Births
- July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astrologer and antiquary
- Unknown dates
- *Luis de León, Spanish mystic and lyric poet
- *Łukasz Górnicki, Polish humanist and poet
- *Iacob Heraclid, Maltese-born humanist and military theorist
Deaths
- c. May 6? – Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligrapher and type designer
- June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher, writer, poet, musician and politician
- June 25 – Šiško Menčetić, Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
- October 27 – Johann Froben, printer and publisher in Switzerland
- Unknown dates
- *Andrea Fulvio, Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian
- *Unknown year – Richard Methley, English Dominican writer and translator