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293Imperial Architect: Background o del suo Signor. Sforzerommi per tanto di più inventioni, che mi vengono in mente <…> prima in pianta un palazzo à crociera, tratto dal quadro. et essendo intorno spiccato, ab- bonderanno per tutto le sue stanze di bellissimi lumi <…>’; <Cap. xi.> ‘Potrassi ancor procedere ne i casamenti, o palazzi fuor delle figure rettangule, facendo il palazzo es- agono, ottangulo, et di piu anguli et lati, di varie et diverse maniere, secondo il desid- erio di chi edifica <…>’; <Cap. xii.> ‘Non solo è conveniente tal volta, per variare, così ne’ palazzi come nell’altre fabriche uscire delle figure contenute da anguli retti; ma ancor tal volta, per compiacere massime à i capricci de’ Signori, è necessario procedere fuor delle figure rettelinee, et fabricare il palazzo circulare, ovale, o di altre simili figure <…>’. 69 For instance Serlio in his Sesto Libro, which was never published, Pl. xix, xxviii, xxix, xxxii and xl, and in his Settimo Libro , published by Strada only in 1575, a.o. Pl. xiii, xviii and xxi; and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in his Livre d’architecture … contenant les plans et dessaings de cinquante bastimens tous differens…, Paris, Benoît Prévôt, 1559, pl. xvi, xxviii, xxxv, xliii, xliiii, xlviii and xlix. The rare examples of Giulio’s archi- tectural designs preserved in the Codex Chlumczansky in Prague, from Strada’s holdings, included several centralized villas; cf. Giulio Romano 1987, pp. 516–519. It should be noted, however, that such ideas were in the air: thus Giulio Ro- mano, Sebastiano Serlio [Fig. 5.58] and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau all three experimented at the time with unusual plans, but it seems unlikely that these could have been available to the two Archdukes before the arrival of Jacopo Strada.69 On the other hand they may well have been aware of Antonio da Sangallo’s as yet unfinished project for the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, which had been built for Ottavio and Alessandro Farnese, the husband and the brother-in-law of their cousin, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Parma [Fig.  5.60]. Sangallo’s pentagonal plan derived from the new fortification tech- niques developed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century engineers in response to Figures 5.56–5.57 Pietro Cataneo, designs for centrally planned houses, from his I primi quattro libri dell’architettura, Venice 1554, Book iv, Ch. x and xi.