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Chapter 3144 Figures 3.55–3.57 Guillaume du Choul, Discours de la religion des anciens Romains, Lyon 1556: title page and illustrations of the temples of Ianus Quadrifrons and Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome, supplied by Jacopo Strada. that Strada himself drew the outlines directly onto the woodblocks for Du Choul’s book, just as Serlio appears to have done with the new designs for the Settimo Libro Strada had commissioned.66 Strada also described a coin in the collection of Guillaume’ son Jean du Choul, who was a natural historian and a friend of Conrad Gesner, to whom Strada may have owned his introduction to the family.67 Among the provenances of coins given in the Διασκευέ Rouillé does not fig- ure: judging from the Promptuaire Strada will hardly have considered him a serious numismatist. He may have better appreciated his new Italian acquain- tance, Giulio Calestano, a lawyer from Parma who had provided Du Choul with some of his coins; fifteen years later Strada would attempt to acquire Cales- tano’s numismatic collection on behalf of Duke Albrecht v of Bavaria.68 The 66 Strada’s reconstructions were included in Du Choul 1556, pp. 20–21 and 40–41; on Serlio’s drawings, see Jansen 1989 and Jansen 2004; Serlio 1994, p. 5, n. 3. 67 See Guillemain 1993, pp. 46–48. Guillemain gives a detailed account of the collectors of coins in Lyon in the sixteenth century, and discusses the names of the collectors given in Hubertus Goltzius’ edition of Caesar (Bruges 1563) (pp. 41 ff.). Goltzius had stayed in Lyon for ten days in August 1560, but had updated his information. 68 Strada described actually only a few coins from Calestano’s cabinet which he had seen at Lyon, where Calestano lived for some time in the 1550s. He later settled in Milan, and in 1567 Strada attempted to acquire an inventory of his studio, the acquisition of which he proposed to Duke Albrecht v of Bavaria.