1523 in literature

• June 9 – Simon de Colines, a Paris printer, is fined for printing Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia, a Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, without approval from the Paris Faculty of Theology. • Laurentian Library in Florence commissioned from Michelangelo by the Medici Pope Clement VII. ==New books==

• Pietro Aron – '''' • Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples – Nouveau Testament, translation of the New Testament into French • Anthony Fitzherbert • '''' • The Boke of Husbandrie • The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements • Martin Luther • , translation of the Pentateuch into German • The Adoration of the Sacrament ('''') • Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation ==New poetry==

• Alexander Barclay – The Mirror of Good Manners, translating Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus (approximate date) • Hans Sachs – Die Wittenbergische Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale) • John Skelton – The Garland of Laurel ==New drama==

• Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farce of Inez Pereira) ==Births==

• February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (died 1593) • February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech Christian humanist writer (died 1571) • March 16 – Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier, French Protestant Hebraist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1572) • March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (died 1575) • unknown date – Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (died 1572) ==Deaths==

• August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, German scholar, poet and reformer (born 1488) • October – William Cornysh, dramatist, poet, actor and composer (born 1465) • unknown date – Stephen Hawes, English poet (born c. 1474) ==References==