1517 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * 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 about tavern life; Great Britain

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