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CARO, ANNIBALE. Apologia de gli Academici di Banchi di Roma contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena,in forma d'uno Spaccio di Maestro Pasquino. Con alcune operette . . . in difesa de la seguente Canzone del Commendatore Annibal Caro. Appertenenti tutte à l'uso de la lingua toscana, & al vero modo di poetare. Printer's woodcut device of firearm wheel-lock on title. 268, [16] pages. 4to, contemporary stiff wrappers with later calligraphic spine title in ink; occasional minor marginal soiling and foxing, circular piece excised from blank area of title and restored. Parma: Seth Viotto, 1558
First edition of a key text in one of the major literary feuds of the Italian Renaissance, the dispute between Caro and Lodovico Castelvetro over the linguistic purity of one of Caro's poems; first issue, with wheel-lock device on title. Adams C739; Gamba 276.
