1525 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1525.

Events

 * July – Michelangelo is in the process of working on the Laurentian Library in Florence.
 * September – William Tyndale's New Testament translation into English is made, but printing in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces. (Copies reach England in 1526.)
 * unknown dates
 * Printing of Huldrych Zwingli's New Testament 'Zürich Bible' translation into German by Christoph Froschauer begins.
 * Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch first appears. It will be reprinted 29 times in this century.
 * The anonymous early 14th-century poem King Alexander is first printed.

Prose

 * Pietro Bembo – Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (Prose della volgar lingua)
 * Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (literally, "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"; also known as The Four Books on Measurement or The Painter's Manual)
 * Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
 * Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio)
 * Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae (On the Seven Points of Christian Idolatry)
 * Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (Report on the First Voyage Around the World; partial publication in Paris)
 * The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed

Drama

 * Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Der Ablasskrämer
 * Niccolò Machiavelli – Clizia

Births

 * March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral singer, poet and playwright (died 1566)
 * Pir Roshan (بايزيد انصاري), Pashtun warrior poet (died 1582/5)
 * Jan van Casembroot, Flemish noble and poet (died 1568)
 * probable – Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof, German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator (died c.1602)

Deaths

 * May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German Protestant theologian, radical economist and poet (born c.1489) (executed)
 * approximate year – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian resident in France (born c.1473)