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241Tasks at the Imperial Court death of Maximilian ii. An element in Hans von Francolin’s Thurnierbuch, a description of the festival organized by King Maximilian for a Habsburg family meeting in Vienna in 156o, suggests that Strada had been involved: it contains an emblematic print and rhyme which, referring to poverty which inhibits the aspiring youngster to reach for higher things, was clearly intended as a bid for patronage [Figs. 4.40–4.41]. This quickly sketched engraving is signed with a monogram consisting of the letters I, S and a smaller R, which can be read as ‘Iacobus Strada <civis> Romanus’.96 Both the style and the sketchy character of the print, contrasting with the huge illustrations by professional engravers such as Hans Sebald Lautensack and Francesco Terzio elsewhere in the book, suggest that it was a small service which Jacopo had rendered his colleague, as a sequel to their collaboration in the festival itself, in which Francolin, as Impe- rial Herald, in any case had been closely involved. 96 Francolin 1561, Frontispiece; it is already included, with a Latin verse, in the earlier Latin edition (Francolin 1560). Figures 4.40–4.41 Portrait (by Francesco Terzio?) of, and his emblem, here attributed to Jacopo Strada, for the Imperial Herald Hans Francolin in his Thurnier Buch: Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thaten, describing the festivities organized in Vienna in June 1560.