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Appendices
The appendices present a few of the more interesting of Strada’s letters and some other
unpublished documents.
– In the transcriptions the orthography has been respected, but abbreviations are tac-
itly solved, unless problematical.
– Capitalization and punctuation are updated, and used to make the text intelligible;
this occasionally involves the breaking up of very long sentences into smaller units.
– Interpolations within brackets in mss. indicated in transcription with round brack-
ets ()
– Interpolations added in the margin or elsewhere are tacitly inserted in the appro-
priate spot; when problematical or when the afterthought can be important in the
interpretation: within square brackets and indication (e.g.: in margin: […])
– Lacunous letters, words and/or passages (f.i. in case of damaged edges etc.) restored
within square brackets []; when problematical marked with ?; when impossible to
restore indicated […].
– Editor’s suggestions for missing, unreadable or unintelligible words or lines within
square brackets []
– Editorial ommissions indicated <…>.
A Some Unpublished Letters
1558-02-12 Jacopo Strada to Ferdinand i, King of the Romans; Nuremberg,
12 February 1558
Vienna, önb-hs, Cod. 5770, f. 1r.–1v.; autograph (request presented
in person)
Serenissimo et potentissimo Re,
Io mi truovo diligentemente haver letto questi doi quaderni et visto le figure de
le medaglie che la Maestà Vostra me a comisso, onde vi sonno di molti errori, tanto
nelle figure, quanto nella scrittura, non di piccola importanza; et a bocca li mostraro
a la Maestà Vostra; et quando la mi cometesse a me il carico pensarei al’uno et al’altro
poterli coreggere; et per niun modo la Maestà Vostra non lassi più avanti procedere, ne
nelle figure, ne anche nella scrittura, insino a tanto che la Maestà Vostra non intende il
mio parere, che con ragione li mostraro, che altrimenti la spesa si gitta via, non senza
biasimo di cui le vedrà . Gli è vero che mal voluntieri parlo de le cose de altri, imperò
per comandamento di Vostra Maestà so[no] ubligato a farlo.
Creddo che la Maestà Vostra habbia visto in bona parte, et anche con gli efetti il mio
bon volere ch’io tengo di servir la casa potentissima d’Austria, et in quanta veneration
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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