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.
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 – 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