1218 in poetry

Events

 * Rambertino Buvalelli becomes podestà of the Republic of Genoa and probably introduces Occitan literature (including troubadour poetry) there
 * Raimon Escrivan composes  during the Siege of Toulouse
 * Enzio of Sardinia (died 1272), knight and general who wrote poems after being captured and imprisoned

Births

 * Enzio of Sardinia (died 1272), knight and general who wrote poems after being captured and imprisoned.

Deaths

 * June – William I of Baux (born 1155), French nobleman and troubadour, dies in a prison in Avignon