1518 in literature

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.
• 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)

Drama

• Angelo Beolco ('Ruzzante') – La Pastoral (approximate date)

Poetry

• Thomas More – Epigrammata
• probable
• Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
• Cock Laurel's Boat

Births

• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566)
• August – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561)
• unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer (died 1585)

Deaths

• February 25 – Publio Fausto Andrelini, Italian humanist poet (born c.1462)
• unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint (born 1398 or 1440 at the latest)

References