1518 in literature explained

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.^[1]
• 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

See main article: 1518 in poetry.

• Thomas More – Epigrammata^[2]
• probable
  • Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
  • Cock Laurel's Boat^[2]

Births

• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566)^[3]
• August – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561)^[4]
• unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer (died 1585)^[5]

Deaths

• February 25 – Publio Fausto Andrelini, Italian humanist poet (born c.1462)^[6]
• unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint (born 1398 or 1440 at the latest)

Notes and References

1. Book: Mantuanus, Baptista . The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus . 52 . Eclogues of Mantuan . Mustard, Wilfred Pirt . The Johns Hopkins Press . 1911 . 2009-05-17.
2. Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
3. Web site: Funck, Johann . Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. 2. 154–155. https://web.archive.org/web/20070630010952/http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/funck_j.shtml. 2007-06-30. de.
4. Book: Jürgen Beyer. Lycosthenes, Conrad. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. 33. 793–98. de.
5. Book: Richard O'Sullivan. Edmund Plowden, 1518-1585. 1952. 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".