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Chapter 14744 the scope of his aspirations as a publisher, and it indicates a wish to render his material accessible to as wide an audience as possible, or in any case to extend its audience beyond the humanist scholar to the educated reader whose Latin was weak or nonexistent. In the second place the published book, though lack- ing the Italian translation, was enriched by a set of woodcut illustrations and by a quantity of transcriptions of Spanish inscriptions not mentioned in the French privilege. What is particularly interesting is that Strada’s copyright privilege closely conforms to a book that was in fact published in Lyon a year before his own edition: this was likewise a complete edition of all of Caesar’s Commentar- ies, supplemented by Hirtius’ continuations and by comments by the con- temporary scholars François Hotman, Fulvio Orsini and Aldo Manuzio the Younger, and lacking only the scholia to the Bellum Gallicum and the Bellum Civile by Henricus Glareanus. This volume does include a copyright privilege which is dated earlier than Strada’s, but this only refers to Hotman’s Scholia in Figures 14.21–14.22 Strada’s edition of Caesar’s Commentaries, printed by Georg Rab in Frankfurt in 1575: titlepage and dedication to Duke Albrecht v of Bavaria.