[EARLY PRINTING]. Annibal Caro. Apologia De Gli Academici Di Bianchi Di Roma, Contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro Da Modena. [Parma: Seth Viotti, 1558]. 4to. 268 pages. Later mottled calf, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (18th century binding). Spine and corners worn, joints splitting, lacking colophon. First Edition. Woodcut emblematic device of a lock-plate to title page and tail-piece at end of text on page 268. Interior in very good condition, minor dampstain, narrow margins at top edges. Caro rebuts Lodovico Castelevetro's attack on his poetry and eventually was victorious. Estimate $200-300
PROVENANCE: Estate of Ambassador and Mrs. William H.G. FitzGerald, Washington, DC, by descent from Ignaz Petschek and Nikodem Caro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
