1529 in literature

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• Paracelsus starts to write Paragranum.

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus
• Simon Fish – A Supplicacyon for the Beggers[1]
• 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[1]
• John Rastell – The Pastyme of People, the Chronydes of dyvers Realmys and most specially of the Realme of England

• 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)

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• George Puttenham, English writer and critic (died 1590)

• February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian poet and author (born 1478)
• June 21 – John Skelton, English poet (born c. 1460)

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• Richard Pynson, French-born English printer (born 1448)
• Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian (born c. 1455)