OSÓRIO, D. Jerónimo.- [...] IN GVALTERVM | HADDONVM MAGISTRVM | LIBELLORVM SVPPLICVM | apud clarissimam | Principe[m] Heli | sabetham | Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginam | Libri tres.- Olysipone: excudebat Franciscus Correa Regius Typographus. Anno incarnationis Dominæ. 1567. Nonis Octob.- 157, [1] f.; 19 cm.- E. Original edition of a libel by the Bishop of Silves (1506-1580) as part of the controversy caused by the letter of D. Jerónimo Osório addressed to Elizabeth I, of England, published in Lisbon in 1562 and then republished and translated in Venice, Louvain and Paris. The queen instructed Walter Haddon (1515-1572), a renowned lawyer and Latinist, to respond to Osório, which happened in 1564/65 with the famous “Apologetic Epistle”. This is the Portuguese bishop's reply to the English scholar's letter. Copy somewhat cropped and handled, with occasional minor stains, but complete and solid. Title page and next page with two small faults, one marginal and the other harming a letter in the first line of the title; rare contemporary underscores. Full sheepskin binding, from the 17th/18th century, with a worn but recoverable spine, without endpapers. In this regard, see: António Guimarães Pinto, “Humanismo e controvérsia religiosa”, Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional – Mint, 2006. Anselmo, 493. BN (16th century), 565. D. Manuel II Library, 335.