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Chapter 14746 Reichart Strein von Schwarzenau, who had been a student of both Glareanus and Hotman—and later came to some agreement to divide the market with the printer Barthélémy Vincent, whom he may well have known personally since his sojourn in Lyon.50 If so, the book was nevertheless no co-production: though both included woodcut illustrations, of which no mention is made in the respective privileges, these are of different subjects. Whereas Vincent added some naturalistic and technical illustrations to the general alphabeti- cal index of the volume, Strada added some thirty reconstructions of Caesar’s battles and sieges at the apposite places in the text itself. These had at one time been commissioned, from an unnamed architect, by Ferrante Gonzaga, Signo- re of Guastalla, Viceroy of Sicily and a general of Charles v. Strada probably had acquired them from Ferrante’s son, Cesare, with whom he was in contact in the 1560s [Figs. 14.23–14.27].51 14.5.4 The Copyright Privilege of 1574 As could be expected, Strada’s book as published more closely conforms to its description in the Imperial copyright he was accorded by Maximilian ii on 30 May 1574 [Figs. 14.21–14.27]. This privilege is an important milestone in the development of Strada’s editorial project: apart from the Caesar (nr iii.) and 50 Vincent also was the publisher of Jacques Besson’s Theatrum instrumentorum et machi- narum of 1578, which owns much to the same sources on which Strada’s own Desseins artificiaulx [Strada 1617–1618], was based, and the style of its illustrations (though not their subjects) are very similar; though published in two volumes only by Strada’s grand- son Ottavio 1617–18, a manuscript version of Strada’s treatise probably antedates Besson’s publication by some two decades; cf. Marchis/ Dolza 2002. 51 Cf. above, Ch. 12.5.1. Figures 14.25–14.27 Bird’s eye view of Vesontio (Besançon; p.14), a raft carrying a tower (p. 134) and a view of Alexandria (p. 200), woodcut illustrations from Strada’s 1575 edition of Caesar’s Commentaries.