1531 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1531.
Events
- unknown dates
- *The first emblem book appears, the Emblemata , an unauthorized issue by the printer Heinrich Steyner in Augsburg, Bavaria, of Italian jurist Andrea Alciato's privately circulated Latin verses, accompanied by woodcuts.
- *Petrarch's poetry Trionfi is first translated into French as Les Triomphes.
New books
Prose
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book One
- Andrea Alciato – Emblemata
- Sir Thomas Elyot – The Boke Named the Governour
- Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy
- Paracelsus – Opus Paramirum
- Michael Servetus – De trinitatis erroribus
- William Turner – ''''
Drama
Poetry
- Marguerite de Navarre – Le Miroir de l'ame Pecheresse
- Approximate date – John Skelton – ''Colin Clout''
Births
- June 1 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist scholar
- October 7 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian
- November 29 – Johannes Letzner, German historian
- Unknown date – Ercole Bottrigari, Italian poet, music theorist and publisher
Deaths
- October 11 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss theologian
- probable – Fernán Pérez de Oliva, Spanish linguist