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757Ambitions
as a Publisher
to investments in his publishing projects, such as those described in Ottavio’s
letter.82
This creative solution was not very realistic; in any case Maximilian’s Privy
Council decided not to discuss it, though Strada was granted the requested
letters of recommendation to August of Saxony.83 Strada must have reckoned
with a refusal to his proposal, for in the same request he also proposed an alter-
native: he asked to be allowed to institute a lottery, in which his house and his
collection, which together he valued at a total of seventeen thousand Thaler,
would be the prizes. By selling lottery tickets he hoped thus to realize a suffi-
cient sum to be able to pay his debts and to continue printing his books.84 He
82 Doc. 1576-09-00: ‘Suplisco Vostra Maestà Cesarea che mi voglia concedere una lettera alla
Maestà del Serenissimo Re di Romani, che Sua Maestà domandi in dono la mia libraria
con hogni cosa che vi è dentro, a li Signori Bohemi, et sia messo nel Castello per dellet-
tatione di Sua Maestà . Anche una lettera al Signore di Rosenberg, che ne voglia trattare
con essi Signori che mella paghino, et io cenne farro buon mercato, perchè mi bisogna far
danari della mia robba, per qualche verso per pagare li mei gran debiti ch’io ò a Franco-
forte et Vienna, che né in l’uno, né in l’altro posso più tornare se non porto denari’.
83 Doc. 1576-09-03. Strada also obtained recommendations to August from Hubert Languet
and Vilém z Rožmberk (Docs. 1567-09-07 and 1576-10-31; cf. Lietzmann 1997, p. 398).
84 Doc. 1576-09-00: ‘Et in casu che Vostra Maestà Cesarea non mi voglia concedere queste
lettere su nominate, La suplisco almeno che mi concedi una licenza di fare un lot, cioè
metter alla ventura tutta la mia robba, casa, et il mio studio, con hogni cosa che vi è den-
tro. Et la casa mia sia fatta buona diecimilia taleri per il manco, perchè mi costa più a me
et ora volendola fabricare, molto più costaria; et il studio sette milia, che tutta la summa
Figures 14.28–14.30 Strada’s three different printer’s marks, on the title page and the
colophon of his editions of Caesar’s Commentaries, printed by Georg
Rab (Corvinus) in Frankfurt in 1575, and on the title page of Serlio’s
Settimo Libro, printed by Andreas Wechel, Frankfurt 1575.
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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