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TITI, ROBERTO. Pro suis locis controversiis assertio adversus Yvonem quem Villiomarum . . . calumniatorem. [8], 224 pages. bound with: [SCALIGER, JOSEPH JUSTE.] Epistola Yvonis Villiomari Aremorici [pseud.] in Fabium Paulinum Utinensem. 15 pages. and: [PAULINO, FABIO.] Responsio ad epistolam calumniatoris, sub nomine Yvonis Villiomari . . . scriptam . . . Auctore Chianeo Oligenio [pseud.]. 15 pages. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, 226x154 mm, contemporary russet morocco gilt with arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his first wife, Marie de Barbançon (Olivier 216/5), on covers, spine in 8 compartments, lettered in one with his monogram in the rest, spine rubbed, front joint wormed and cracked at top, circular impressions and stains on front cover, binding and contents exude faint aroma of incense; first work lightly foxed in margins with some browning toward end, second work browned, third relatively clean,. Florence: Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1589; Paris, 1587; Venice, 12 October 1587
first editions of 3 publications from an exchange of polemics provoked by Titi's 1583 Locorum controversorum libri decem, an attack on French textual criticism in general and the work of Scaliger in particular. In Pro suis locis . . . assertio, Titi additionally impugned Scaliger's supposed descent from the noble Della Scala family of Verona. Bernays, pages 251-62.
