1529 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1529.

Events

 * Paracelsus starts to write Paragranum.

New books

 * Henry Cornelius Agrippa – Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus
 * Simon Fish – A Supplicacyon for the Beggers
 * Hans Luft – A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a Husbandman
 * Martin Luther
 * Luther's Small Catechism (Der Kleine Katechismus)
 * On War Against the Turk (Vom Kriege wider die Türken)
 * Philipp Melanchthon – Commentary on the Colossians (with foreword by Martin Luther)
 * Thomas More – A Supplication of Souls
 * John Rastell – The Pastyme of People, the Chronydes of dyvers Realmys and most specially of the Realme of England

Births

 * February 23 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian and antiquary (died 1568)
 * June 7 – Étienne Pasquier, French poet and author (died 1615)
 * December 11 – Fulvio Orsini, Italian humanist historian (died 1600)
 * Unknown date – George Puttenham, English writer and critic (died 1590)

Deaths

 * February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian poet and author (born 1478)
 * June 21 – John Skelton, English poet (born c. 1460)
 * Unknown dates
 * Richard Pynson, French-born English printer (born 1448)
 * Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian (born c. 1455)