1531 in poetry

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Works published

 * John Skelton, Colin Clout, publication year uncertain
 * First translation into French of Les Triomphes ("Triumphs") of Petrarch
 * Marguerite de Navarre, Le Miroir de l'ame Pecheresse, long devotional poem

Births
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 * Ercole Bottrigari (died 1612), Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer

Deaths
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 * October 11 - Huldrych Zwingli (born 1484), Swiss theologian, priest, poet and writer, killed in Second War of Kappel