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151In Hans Jakob Fugger’s Service Figures 3.65–3.68 Sebastiano Serlio, title pages of the Primo Libro (Paris 1545), the Terzo Libro and the Quarto Libro or Regole generali (both Venice 1544), and the Quinto Libro (Paris 1547) of the architectural treatise, all first published before Strada met Serlio in Lyon. treatise. In this he was not successful: though the first five books which had already been published before Serlio came to Lyon [Figs. 3.65–3.68] continued to be reprinted in several languages—in the Netherlands, in Venice, in Spain— the Sixth and Seventh Books and the book on military architecture did not see the light within his lifetime [Figs. 3.73–3.80]. Serlio did, however, succeed to persuade Jean de Tournes to publish the so- called Extraordinario Libro, a set of designs of ornamental door-surrounds. This was probably considered a potential bestseller, and it was indeed reprinted no less than fifteen times within the next twenty years, both in French and Italian [cf. Figs. 3.69–3.72].78 Doubtless Strada knew Serlio’s published works and was aware of his reputation: he sought him out already during his first visit to Lyon in 1550. Notwithstanding the considerable difference in age, they had much in com- mon: both were Italian, both were artists with a particular and profound inter- est in architecture, both were passionate students of classical Antiquity and, last but not least, they both appear to have been suspected of Protestant lean- ings.79 Obviously they discussed Serlio’s projects, and already during his first visit Strada proposed to print the unpublished part of the treatise. Serlio was by now seventy-five years old, and not having found a publisher in Lyon ready to undertake such an expensive project, he may well have despaired of seeing his works into print. So he was happy to let Strada have his manuscripts, which 78 On the editions of Serlio’s works, see Dinsmoor 1942; Fontaine Verwey 1976; Bury 1989; Sebastiano Serlio a Lyon 2004. 79 On Serlio’s religious views, see Tafuri 1989; Carpo 1993b, and below, Ch. 11.4.