1518 in literature

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).

Prose

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

Poetry

 * Thomas More – Epigrammata
 * probable
 * Alexander Barclay – The fyfte Eglog
 * Cock Laurel's Boat

Births

 * February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566)
 * 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)