1518 in literature

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)