page_title: 1527 in poetry
section_title: Works published
hierarchical_section_title: 1527 in poetry / Works published
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Marco Gerolamo Vida (ca. 1480-1566)
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Pietro Aretino, Sonetti Lussuriosi ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures"), to accompany an edition of Raimondi's erotic engravings, I Modi, Italy
  John Skelton, Skelton Laureate Agaynste a Comely Coystrowne, publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want", England
  Gian Travers, Chianzun dalla guerra dagl Chiaste da Müs, Putèr variety of Romansh language, Switzerland
  Marco Girolamo Vida, also known as "Hieronymus Vida", Italy:
  De arte poetica ("The Art of Poetry"), tract on poetic theory partly inspired by Horace
  Scacchia, Ludus ("The Game of Chess"), about the creation of chess as a way for the mythological Greek god Mercury to win over Caissa; involves a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods; a 658-line poem in Virgilian hexameters, translated into many languages over the centuries (an unauthorized, 742-line version appears in 1525 with some different names; in 1763 the English author and poet Sir William Jones publishes another chess poem involving the characters of Mercury and Caissa)
caption: Marco Girolamo Vida
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