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)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". unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint (born 1398 or 1440 at the latest)

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