Events from the year 1517 in literature.

Events

• August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.
• unknown dates
  • John of Hauville's Architrenius (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris.^[1]
  • Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino (The [Golden] Ass) and (at about this date) the comedy Andria, adapted from Terence.

New books

Prose

• Martin Luther – Ninety-five Theses (in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum)

Drama

• Gil Vicente – A Trilogia das Barcas; part 1, Auto da Barca do Inferno^[2][3]

Poetry

• Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)^[4]
• John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng^[4][5]

Births

• June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)^[6]
• July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)^[7]
• unknown date – Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
• probable – Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)^[8]

Deaths

• June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician, second person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping (born c.1447)^[9]
• August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness; born 1478)^[10]