1521 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1521. Events January 3 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther, by the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. January 14 – Martin Luther writes to Johann von Staupitz, saying that he has burned the papal bull. February 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga arrives in Rome to campaign against Erasmus; later in the year he publishes an account of his journey from Spain. June (probably 29 or 30) – Neacșu's letter, the oldest surviving dateable document written primarily in the Romanian language (in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet), is approximately dated to this month. August 13 – Marko Marulić's poem Judita (Judith, written 1501), a landmark in Croatian literature, is printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto. unknown date – John Siberch is active in Cambridge, the city's earliest known printer. New books