1531 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1531. Events unknown dates The first emblem book appears, the Emblemata, an unauthorized issue by the printer Heinrich Steyner in Augsburg, Bavaria, of Italian jurist Andrea Alciato's privately circulated Latin verses, accompanied by woodcuts. Petrarch's poetry Trionfi (Triumphs) is first translated into French as Les Triomphes. New books Prose Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book One Andrea Alciato – Emblemata Sir Thomas Elyot – The Boke Named the Governour (the first English work of moral philosophy) Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – Discourses on Livy Paracelsus – Opus Paramirum (written in St. Gallen) Michael Servetus – (On the Errors of the Trinity) William Turner – (completed in 1568)