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)
Drama Accademia degli Intronati – Gl' Ingannati
Poetry
Marguerite de Navarre – Approximate date – John Skelton – Colin Clout
Births June 1 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist scholar (died 1584) October 7 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (died 1601) November 29 – Johannes Letzner, German historian (died 1613) Unknown date – Ercole Bottrigari, Italian poet, music theorist and publisher (died 1612)
Deaths October 11 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss theologian (born 1484; killed in Second War of Kappel) probable – Fernán Pérez de Oliva, Spanish linguist (born c. 1492)
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