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Chapter 11558 educated by the noted humanists Jacques Amyot, Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples and the Scotsman Henry Scrimgeour. He cherished humanist interests himself, in particular in Greek poetry, and left a huge library at his death in 1570. So, like Dani, he would both have been interested in and interesting to Jacopo Stra- da.21 We do not know how close their contacts were: Strada’s letter that docu- ments it is devoted to an urgent business matter—Strada marked its outside ‘Cito Cito Cito’. In it he informs Bochetel that the Nieri, merchants from Lucca at Nuremberg, had informed him that they had received a letter of exchange from Antwerp for a huge sum of money destined for the ambassador, which he could have sent at his convenience. But then Strada continues conversation- ally ‘I myself and my family are all well, and I have become quite philosophical, and always remain at home and attend to the building of my little house’.22 21 On Bochetel, see Dictionnaire de biographie française, 6, 1954, p. 750. 22 Doc. 1562-10-21. Figure 11.16 The same statue as copied in Strada’s workshop; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Figure 11.15 Antique Roman female statue, now in Palazzo Pitti in Florence, as copied after Dosio by Battista Naldini (?), in an album that belonged to Jacopo Dani; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Figure 11.17 The owner’s mark in Jacopo Dani’s copy of Strada’s Epitome Thesauri Antiqui- tatum, Lyon 1553.