Apologia de gli Academici di Banchi di Roma : Contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena. Informa d'uno Spaccio di Maestro Pasquino. Con alcune operette, del predella, del bvratto, di ser pedocco. In difesa de la seguente Canzone del Commendatore
A 1558 Italian polemical treatise by Annibal Caro, printed in Parma, defending his canzone against Lodovico Castelvetro in a learned Italian literary quarrel. The four woodcut ornaments are small decorative headpieces with a central mask flanked by grotesque figures, scrollwork and foliage, suited to designers seeking Renaissance strapwork and grotesque ornament borders.
