Enrico Caterino DAVILA (1576-1631) Italian historian and humanist. L.A.S. (signed at head), May 1617, to Italian humanist Luigi Lollino (1552-1625), bishop of Belluno; 1 1/2 pages in-fol. (one margin repaired); in Latin with quotations in Greek. Beautiful correspondence between two humanists. "Illustrissimo Præsuli Aloysio Lollino Pontifici Bellunensi Henricus Catarinus Davila. Remunerasti me quidem, Illustrissime Præsul, è Musarum thesauris quam amplissime, qui pro rudi uno, impolitoque scripto, duo illa ad me miseris Epigrammata, quibus nil gravius, nil acutius, nil exornatius totum pangere potest Helicona"... Etc. Further on, he quotes Plato... The letter was collected in Lollino's published correspondence, Aloysii Lollini Epistolæ miscellanæ (Belluno, 1642), book I p. 95.