1518 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1518.
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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
- 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)
References
- Mantuanus, Baptista (1911). Mustard, Wilfred Pirt (ed.). The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus. The Johns Hopkins Press. p. 52. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
Eclogues of Mantuan
- Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. "Funck, Johann". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (in German). pp. 154–155. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30.
- Jürgen Beyer. Lycosthenes, Conrad (in German). Vol. 33. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. pp. 793–98.
- Richard O'Sullivan (1952). Edmund Plowden, 1518-1585. Honourable Society of the Middle Temple at the University Press.
- 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".
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