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163In Hans Jakob Fugger’s Service the marriage of Margaret of Austria, widow of Alessandro de’ Medici, to Ot- tavio Farnese, Duke of Parma. It also incorporated the results of the excava- tions of the Baths of Caracalla in the 1540s. Other important family collections were those of the Della Valle, the Cesi, the Del Bufalo, the Galli, the Maffei, the Mattei, the Massimi and the Savelli, while a number of cardinals in Rome also brought together important collections [Figs 3.84–3.85]. Chief among these were those established by two cardinals from ruling families: that of Rodolfo Pio, Cardinal of Carpi ,was housed in his palace in the Campo Marzio and his vigna on Monte Cavallo, while Ippolito d’Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, used his to adorn the splendid villa at Tivoli he had designed by Pirro Ligorio in the 1550s. But even foreign prelates residing for longer or shorter periods in Rome, such as Jean du Bellay, Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, and Antoine Perrenot, Cardinal Granvelle, brought together considerable collections. These grander collections were complemented by the smaller cabinets, of- ten consisting chiefly of coins, small bronzes, some gems, some inscriptions that were popular among the less wealthy members of the Curia. The presence of such a considerable number of collectors, coupled to short-term visitors to Rome who were desirous of bringing home at least one or two souvenirs, provided a brisk market for all sort of antiquities, chiefly centring around the Campo de’ Fiori, but about which not much is known as yet. Demand was suf- ficiently ample to encourage even an industry in copies and, probably, outright fakes, though it is not always easy to decide in which category the many Re- naissance imitations that have been preserved should be classified.98 98 McCrory 1980, McCrory 1987; Jones 1990. Figures 3.84–3.85 Two of the Roman collections of antiquities visited by Jacopo Strada, in the Palazzo Capranica-della Valle (engraving by Hieronymus Cock after Maarten van Heemskerck) and in the Casa Sassi (drawing by Heem- skerck; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett).