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 arising from the letter of D. Jerónimo Osório addressed to Elizabeth I of England, published in Lisbon in 1562 and later republished and translated in Venice, Louvain and Paris . The Queen commissioned 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 slightly cropped and handled, with occasional minor blemishes, but complete and solid. Front and next page with two minor faults, one marginal and the other harming a letter in the first line of the title; rare underlinings of the time. 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-Casa da Moeda, 2006. Anselmo, 493. BN (16th century), 565. King D. Manuel II Library, 335.