1518 in literature

Events

• Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues are prescribed for use in St Paul's School, London.
• Niccolò Machiavelli probably writes his satirical comedy ''The Mandrake.

  New books

Prose

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De originali peccato
• Erasmus – Colloquies
• Frederyke of Jennen
• Tantrakhyan

  Poetry

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

  Births

• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian
• August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist
• unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer

  Deaths

• February 25 – Publio Fausto Andrelini, Italian humanist poet
• unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint