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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1525.

Events

July – Michelangelo is in the process of working on the Laurentian Library in Florence.^[1]
September – William Tyndale's New Testament translation into English is made, but printing in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces. (Copies reach England in 1526.)^[2]
unknown dates
- Printing of Huldrych Zwingli's New Testament 'Zürich Bible' translation into German by Christoph Froschauer begins.
- Il Petrarco, Allesandro Vellutello's edition of Petrarch first appears. It will be reprinted 29 times in this century.^[3]
- The anonymous early 14th-century poem King Alexander is first printed.^[4]

Pietro Bembo – Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (Prose della volgar lingua)
Albrecht Dürer – Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (literally, "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"; also known as The Four Books on Measurement or The Painter's Manual)
Francesco Giorgi – De harmonia mundi totius
Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio)
Paracelsus – De septem puncti idolotriae christianae (On the Seven Points of Christian Idolatry)
Antonio Pigafetta – Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (Report on the First Voyage Around the World; partial publication in Paris)
The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed

March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral singer, poet and playwright (died 1566)
Pir Roshan (بايزيد انصاري), Pashtun warrior poet (died 1582/5)
Jan van Casembroot, Flemish noble and poet (died 1568)
probable – Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof, German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator (died c.1602)

May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German Protestant theologian, radical economist and poet (born c.1489) (executed)
approximate year – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian resident in France (born c.1473)^[5]

^ Sheryl E. Reiss (2 March 2017). The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. Taylor & Francis. pp. 290–. ISBN 978-1-351-88375-7.
^ James Austin BASTOW (1859). A Biblical Dictionary; being a comprehensive digest of the history and antiquities of the Jews and neighbouring nations, etc. Longman & Company. p. 36.
^ Kennedy, William J. (1999). "Petrarchan poetics". In Kennedy, George Alexander; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-521-30008-8. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ A Contribution to the Study Of Jean Lemaire De Belges. Slatkine. 1936. p. 83.