1518 in literature

unknown dates

• Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues are prescribed for use in St Paul's School, London.{{Cite book |last=Mantuanus |first=Baptista |url=https://archive.org/details/ecloguesbaptist01mustgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/ecloguesbaptist01mustgoog/page/n58 52] |quote=Eclogues of Mantuan |title=The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus |editor=Mustard, Wilfred Pirt |publisher=The Johns Hopkins Press |year=1911 |accessdate=2009-05-17}}
• Niccolò Machiavelli probably writes his satirical comedy The Mandrake (La Mandragola).

• Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De originali peccato
• Erasmus – Colloquies
• Frederyke of Jennen
• Tantrakhyan (Nepal Bhasa literature)

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• Thomas More – Epigrammata{{cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm }}
• probable
• Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
• Cock Laurel's Boat

• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566){{cite web|url=http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/funck_j.shtml |author=Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz|title= Funck, Johann |website=Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon|volume=2|pages= 154–155|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630010952/http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/funck_j.shtml|archive-date=2007-06-30|language=de}}
• August – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561){{cite book|author=Jürgen Beyer|title=Lycosthenes, Conrad|publisher=Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon|volume=33|pages=793–98|language=de}}
• unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer (died 1585){{cite book|author=Richard O'Sullivan|title=Edmund Plowden, 1518-1585|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNcfAAAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=Honourable Society of the Middle Temple at the University Press}}

• 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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