1518 in literature
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1518.
Events
unknown dates
- Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues are prescribed for use in St Paul's School, London.<ref name=wpm>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Niccolò Machiavelli probably writes his satirical comedy The Mandrake (La Mandragola).
New books
Prose
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De originali peccato
- Erasmus – Colloquies
- Frederyke of Jennen
- Tantrakhyan (Nepal Bhasa literature)
Poetry
- Thomas More – Epigrammata<ref name=cocel>Template:Cite book</ref>
- probable
- Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
- Cock Laurel's Boat<ref name=cocel/>
Births
- February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- August – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer (died 1585)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Deaths
- February 25 – Publio Fausto Andrelini, Italian humanist poet (born c.1462)<ref>Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia (Brescia, 1753); Mazzuchelli's ambitious biographical dictionary got no farther than the letter B; Godelieve Tournoy-Thoen, in Thomas Brian Deutscher, ed. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1985-87, s.v. Fausto Andrelini of Forlì".</ref>
- unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint (born 1398 or 1440 at the latest)