1531 in poetry

Events

Works published

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

  Births

• Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer

  Deaths

• October 11 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss theologian, priest, poet and writer, killed in Second War of Kappel