title: 1521 in literature
text: # 1521 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1521.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 3 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther, by the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
  * January 14 – Martin Luther writes to Johann von Staupitz, saying that he has burned the papal bull.
  * February 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga arrives in Rome to campaign against Erasmus; later in the year he publishes an account of his journey from Spain.
  * June (probably 29 or 30) – Neacșu's letter, the oldest surviving dateable document written primarily in the Romanian language (in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet), is approximately dated to this month.
  * August 13 – Marko Marulić's poem Judita (Judith, written 1501), a landmark in Croatian literature, is printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto.
  * unknown date – John Siberch is active in Cambridge, the city's earliest known printer.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Codex Ňuu Tnoo - Ndisi Nuu
  * Jacopo Berengario da Carpi – Commentaria cum amplissimus additionibus super anatomiam Mundini (published in Bologna), containing the first printed anatomical illustrations taken from nature
  * Goražde Psalter
  * Henry VIII of England – Defence of the Seven Sacraments (Assertio Septem Sacramentorum)
  * Niccolò Machiavelli – The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra)
  * Piri Reis – Kitab-ı Bahriye
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Alexander Barclay – The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog"
  * Henry Bradshaw – The Life of St. Werburgh
  * Andrew Chertsey, The Passyon of Oure Lorde, translated from French with additional verses inserted and introductory poem by Robert Copland (published in London by Wynkyn de Worde)
  * Christmas Carols, including "A caroll of huntynge" and "A carol bringyng in the bores heed"
  * Robert Copland – Introductory verse to The Myrrour & the Chyrche (published in London by Wynkyn de Worde)
  
  Approximate year
  
  * A boke of a Ghoostly fader (A Book of a Ghostly Father, published in London by Wynkyn de Worde)
  * John Skelton, "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng"
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 8 – Peter Canisius, German theologian (died 1597)
  * unknown dates
     * Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder, English statesman and poet (died 1565)
     * Xu Wei (徐渭), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist (died 1593)
  * probable
     * Anne Askew, English poet and Protestant martyr (burned at the stake 1546)
     * Jorge de Montemor, Portuguese novelist and poet writing in Spanish (died 1561)
     * Pontus de Tyard, French poet and priest, a member of La Pléiade (died 1605)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * May 10 – Sebastian Brant, German satirical poet and humanist (born c. 1457)
  * unknown date– Jean Bourdichon, French illuminator of manuscripts (born 1457/9)
  