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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 (La Mandragola).
New books
Prose
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa – De originali peccato
- Erasmus – Colloquies
- Frederyke of Jennen
- Tantrakhyan (Nepal Bhasa literature)
Drama
- Angelo Beolco ('Ruzzante') – La Pastoral (approximate date)
Poetry
- Thomas More – Epigrammata
- probable
- Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
- Cock Laurel's Boat
- August – Conrad Lycosthenes, né Wolffhart, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561)
- unknown date – Edmund Plowden, English legal writer (died 1585)
Deaths
- February 25 – Publio Fausto Andrelini, Italian humanist poet (born c.1462)
- unknown date – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint (born 1398 or 1440 at the latest)