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Latin; he is a youth ready to bear fatigue and will readily exert himself, if
he is asked to.13
The latter phrase seems to indicate some lack of initiative on Paolo’s part,
something of which Ottavio certainly cannot be accused. It is clear that Stra-
da’s younger surviving son was a most promising youngster, who shared his
father’s interests, and like him was endowed with both intellectual and artistic
talents. It was Ottavio who was carefully trained by his father as his successor
and who at an early age accompanied him as his assistant. Swelling his father’s
suite of personal servants and local brokers and appraisers, his presence in
Venice attracted the invidious attention of Strada’s rival, Niccolò Stopio:
[Strada] went around here in Venice<…>with scarlet hose, with his son as
a page and three or four of these brokers as followers so that he seemed
a great lord, but I assure your Lordship that people here don’t appreciate
such conduct …14
Stopio also refers to what must have been an important function of both Paolo
and Ottavio, that is to translate and write their father’s letters in German: born
of a German mother and bred in Nuremberg and Vienna, their command of
the written language was obviously far superior to that of their father and,
once old enough, one or both of them habitually functioned as their father’s
German secretary.15
13 Doc. 1573-00-00: Strada to Maximilian ii, without place and date: ‘Mi trovo mio figliuolo
Pauolo Strada, il quale è sta[to] in Turchia tre anni, nel qual luogo à patito del male assai,
come è noto a molti. Io con esso lui suplichiamo la Maestà Vostra Cesarea che li voglia
esser raccomandato di un picciol servicio da gentilhuomo, o apresso alla Maestà Vostra,
o vero a le Maestà delli Serenissimi suoi figliuoli. Esso è inclinato a far viaggi e massime
in Turchia, dove à qualche principio della lingua, et nel praticarvi per lo avenire la potria
finire de imparare. E giovine animoso, andara in capo del mondo se la Maestà Vostra
cello comandara; è di eta di venticinque anni e di madre tedescha, nato a Nurimbergo.
Parla italiano e latino; è giovine da durar fattica, et si affaticara voluntieri, ma che li sia
comandato’.
14 Stopio to Fugger, 16 January 1568: ‘[Strada] <…>andava qui per la terra<…>con le calze
di scarlato, col figliuolo per paggio et 3. o 4 di questi suoi sanzali appresso che pareva
un conte et cavalliere, ma prometto a V.S. che questa terra non vuol tal procedere<…>’
(BHStS, Kurbayern, Äusseres Archiv 4852, fol. 122).
15 Ibidem, 31 August 1567, fol. 56: ‘Et così si pratica di longo, come penso haveria scritto a Sua
Eccellenza, per la lettera che hora mando, la sop[ra]scrittion è di man sua, secondo la sua
grammatica ‘obsserv.mo’, con ‘b’ et ‘ss’, non so se per di dentro havera anche detto secondo
la sua rara dottrina ‘efitt.mo’, ò che l’havera fatto scrivere Thodesco dal figliuolo’. Various
documents and letters preserved among Strada’s files are in Ottavio or Paolo’s hands.
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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
The Antique as Innovation, Volume 2
- Title
- Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
- Subtitle
- The Antique as Innovation
- Volume
- 2
- Author
- Dirk Jacob Jansen
- Publisher
- Brill
- Location
- Leiden
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-35949-9
- Size
- 15.8 x 24.1 cm
- Pages
- 542
- Categories
- Biographien
- Kunst und Kultur
Table of contents
- 11 The Musaeum: Strada’s Circle 547
- 11.1 Strada’s House 547
- 11.2 High-ranking Visitors: Strada’s Guest Book and Ottavio’s Stammbuch 548
- 11.3 ‘Urbanissime Strada’: Accessibility of and Hospitality in the Musaeum 554
- 11.4 Intellectual Associates 556
- 11.5 Strada’s Confessional Position 566
- 11.6 Contacts with Members of the Dynasty 570
- 12 The Musaeum: its Contents 576
- 12.1 Introduction 576
- 12.2 Strada’s own Descriptions of his Musaeum 577
- 12.3 Strada’s Acquisitions for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria 580
- 12.4 Strada’s own Cabinet of Antiquities 592
- 12.5 Acquisitions of Other Materials in Venice 599
- 12.6 Commissions in Mantua 610
- 12.7 ‘Gemalte Lustigen Tiecher’: Contemporary Painting in Strada’s Musaeum 615
- 12.8 Conclusion 628
- 13 Books, Prints and Drawings: The Musaeum as a centre of visualdocumentation 629
- 13.1 Introduction 629
- 13.2 Strada’s Acquisition of Drawings 630
- 13.3 ‘Owls to Athens’: Some Documents Relating to Strada’s GraphicCollection 634
- 13.4 The Contents of Strada’s Collection of Prints and Drawings 641
- 13.5 Later Fate of Strada’s Prints and Drawings 647
- 13.6 Drawings Preserved in a Context Linking Them withStrada 649
- 13.7 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Antiquity 673
- 13.8 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Contemporary Architecture and Decoration 692
- 13.9 Images as a Source of Knowledge 711
- 13.10 Conclusion 717
- 14 ‘Ex Musaeo et Impensis Jacobi Stradae, S.C.M. Antiquarius, CivisRomani’: Strada’s Frustrated Ambitions as a Publisher 719
- 14.1 Is There Life beyond the Court? 719
- 14.2 Strada’s Family 719
- 14.3 Ottavio Strada’s Role 725
- 14.4 The Publishing Project: Strada Ambitions as a Publisher 728
- 14.5 The Musaeum as an Editorial Office? 739
- 14.6 Financing the Programme 752
- 14.7 The Index Sive Catalogus 760
- 14.8 Strada’s Approach of Christophe Plantin 775
- 14.9 The Rupture with Ottavio 781
- 14.10 Strada’s Testamentary Disposition 783
- 14.11 Conclusion: The Aftermath 786
- 15 Le Cose dell’antichità : Strada as a Student of Antiquity 799
- 16 Strada & Co.: By Appointment to His Majesty the Emperor 830
- 16.1 Strada as an Imperial Antiquary and Architect 830
- 16.2 Strada’s Role as an Agent 836
- 16.3 Strada as an Independent Agent 840
- 16.4 ‘Ex Musaeo Iacobi de Strada’: Study, Studio, Workshop, Office, Showroom 843
- 16.5 Strada’s Influence: An Agent of Change 849
- 16.6 Conclusion: Strada’s Personality 863
- 16.7 Epilogue: Back to the Portrait 868
- Appendices 877
- Chronological List of Sources 915
- Bibliography 932
- List of Illustrations 986
- Index 1038