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551Strada’s Circle willingness of such high-ranking and often powerful members of the Imperial court to oblige a young minor courtier was due to their respect for his father, in whose house or company they would have met him.8 That at least some of these signatures reflected some concrete personal relationship is documented 8 In 1572 Jean de Viçose d’Alfeyran, a secretary of the Duke of Anjou, entered his name in Ottavio’s Stammbuch, adding that he had ‘visited and admired the Museum of the most learned man I. Strada’ (opp. p. 153, fable 142). Figures 11.5–11.9 Ottavio Strada’s Stammbuch: title page; his own autograph entry; those of Juraj Drašković, Archbishop of Kalocsa; István Radéczy, Bishop of Eger; János Liszthi, Bishop of Györ, and Andreas von Jerin, Prince-Bishop of Wrocław/Breslau, all on the same page; of Alfonso ii del Carretto, Mar- quis of Finale; and of the English diplomat and poet Sir Philip Sidney.