1518 in literature

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)

Poetry

Main article: 1518 in 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

References

1. Mantuanus, Baptista. (1911). "The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus". The Johns Hopkins Press.
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. [[Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz]]. "Funck, Johann".
4. Jürgen Beyer. "Lycosthenes, Conrad". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon.
5. Richard O'Sullivan. (1952). "Edmund Plowden, 1518-1585". Honourable Society of the Middle Temple at the University Press.
6. 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".