The vicious world of Renaissance lit. crit.

Apologia de gli Academici di Banchi di Roma, contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena, by Annibale Caro (Parma, 1558)

Lodovico Castelvetro (c.1505-1571), of Modena, was an influential literary theorist, who criticized one of Annibale Caro's canzoni; this is Caro's defence. The whole affair developed into a major literary feud. Castelvetro was later condemned for doctrinal error by the Roman Inquisition and fled into exile; there seems to be considerable suspicion that it was Caro who denounced him to the authorities for heresy ...