Literature year 1518

Literature year 1518
Adam Ries wrote the work Invoice on the Line .

Events

Erasmus of Rotterdam writes Colloquia familiaria ( conversations in close family circles ).

Mandragola, title page

probably January / February: Niccolò Machiavelli writes the comedy Mandragola , which is considered one of the most important comedies of the Renaissance . The work is likely to have its premiere in Florence in September on the return of Lorenzo de 'Medici and his wife Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergnes , who had previously married in France.

The Editio princeps appears in Venice , the first printed edition of the seven surviving tragedies of Aeschylus .

Adam Ries, bronze sculpture in Staffelstein

The German arithmetic master Adam Ries wrote the work, intended for children, Invoice auff der Linihen , the first of several arithmetic books in German . As a result, it not only reaches a wider readership than previous works in Latin, but also contributes to the standardization of German. Abstract written arithmetic , invented in India, was still uncommon in Europe at that time.
Martin Luther wrote Sermo de triplici iustitia ( Sermon on threefold justice ). In A Sermon of Indulgence and Grace , he used the vernacular for the first time to reach larger strata of the population.

August 8 : Conrad Lycosthenes , German humanist and encyclopaedist († 1561 )
August 19 : Kaspar Brusch , German humanist, Catholic theologian, historian and poet († 1559 )

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