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161In Hans Jakob Fugger’s Service with Antonio Agustín and by his project of having all mosaics of Old St. Pe- ters documented before they were destroyed.89 The Spanish prelate Antonio Agustín, consecutively auditor of the Rota, bishop of Lerida and Archbishop of Tarragona, was himself both a consummate classical scholar and a canon lawyer who played an important role in the Council of Trent [Fig. 3.89]. Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, prince-bishop of Augsburg, likewise combined an in- terest and expertise in classical remains, with great zeal in the re-catholization of his diocese.90 As said, I do not think this is a coincidence, but the nature of the connection is not self-evident; the response to the Reformation can hardly be considered as a cause of the boom of antiquarian studies around the middle of the six- teenth century. But it is possible that it provided scholars interested in anti- quarian subjects with an excuse to indulge their hobby. Moreover, Reformation and Counter-Reformation also provided a negative motivation to study classi- cal Antiquity: reading Agustín’s letters one recognizes his profound and pas- sionate interest in antiquarian studies, but one also realizes that such research provided him with a rare possibility occasionally to escape from the stress of contemporary business and dispute, in particular theological dispute.91 The interest in the remains of Antiquity, initially practiced mostly in cleri- cal circles in Rome, soon migrated to a secular context: it is merely implied in Il libro del Cortigiano of Baldassare Castiglione, himself close to the Curia environment, but re-emerges more explicitly in some other tracts on courtesy and gentlemanly behaviour, such as Tomasso Garzoni’s La piazza universale.92 Interest in Antiquity was considered a suitable hobby for princes and high- placed officials also because it provided them with a decent means of show- ing off their wealth as well as their erudition. The proliferation of collections of antiquities documented by Maarten van Heemskerck’s drawings and Al- drovandi’s Delle statue di Roma should be considered from this point of view. These were brought together by competing prelates or by local patricians, who were stimulated by Roman patriotism or the pride connected with true or as- sumed descent from ancient Roman gentes.93 89 Waetzold 1964. 90 On Agustín, see Crawford 1993; on the Cardinal of Augsburg, see Overbeeke 1994; Wüst 1999. 91 Agustín’s correspondence published in Agustín 1980. 92 Tommaso Garzoni, La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo, Venice 1588, dis- corso 148, pp. 900–903: ‘De’ professori di medaglie, et d’altre anticaglie, Antiquiarij detti’, and cf. p. 670. 93 On these collections, see below. The Massimi family traced their lineage from Quintus Fabius Maximus; I am told that even today the Pio da Carpi family, whose ancestor Ro- dolfo Pio Cardinal da Carpi brought together one of the most important collections of