1517 in poetry

• Niccolò Machiavelli writes ''L'asino'' ("The [Golden] Ass") ==Works published==

• Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems, including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions • Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" (first printed edition) published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius • Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe • John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet • Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet • Approximate date • Robert Crowley (died 1588), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547), English aristocrat and poet ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • August – Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet • Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet • Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet • Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet • Approximate date – Fausto Andrelino (born c. 1462), Italian, Latin-language poet ==See also==