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so Strada escaped to Verona, in Venetian territory, where the Inquisition was
less powerful.41 By June 1568 the Holy Office had been sent a detailed personal
description of Strada which perfectly fits Titian’s portrait, for which he was
sitting at the time, and it even employed spies in Venice to figure out where
Strada was.42 A later attempt by Maximilian ii to obtain a more permanent
safe-conduct on his behalf from Duke Guglielmo appears to have been equally
unsuccessful.43
It is not clear in how far Strada’s persecution was justified by actual evi-
dence in the hands of the Holy Office; from another document its appears that
41 Ibidem, ‘Vi sete voi scordato la benevolenza ch’ io vi portò di quel atto ch’ io feci di volervi
pagar il cocchio e darvi danari per mandarvi a Verona; ma di già avevate fatto vella e
tanto miseramente essendovi fugito a piedi da Mantova a Verona [inserted above the line:
a digiuno], avendo lassato la tavola parechiata per desinare. Ma la mia fuga è stata da
da gentiluomo, perchè prima mi volsi valere del grado mio, e come servidor del primo
signore del mondo andai a parla<r> al Ducha, che mi assicurasse me e li mei huomini,
che per me lavoravano; e voi eravate il primo posto sulla lista, tanto era l’amor ch’io vi
portò. Infine vedendo le scuse di non potere, me ne vene a Vinetia.’; Niccolò Stopio to
Hans Jakob Fugger, Venice, 5 October 1567, HStA-LA 4852, fol. 169–70: ‘essendo esso Strada
p<ar>tito per Verona, per paura della Inquisitione, che li frati di San Domenico l’havevano
cercato una volta ò 2 in casa sua, et andando lui dal Duca a dolersene, il Duca li rispose
che con loro non se n’impacciarò, se bene era huomo dell’Imperatore, che ’l guardasse
lui il fatto suo, dovendo lui medes<imo> saper meglio come stava che nessun altro; per
il che se ne andò subito via per Verona, lassando il suo puto [= Ottavio Strada] in Man-
tua<…> et non fidandosi ne anche ivi [= Verona] venne poi a Ven<eti>a, ove per rispetto
de l’Imperatorenon li haveriano lasciato dare molestia; benchè non ho inteso che’l sia
contrario alle cose Romane, se non che’l è molto libero di ragionare, et intrando in colera
non ha respetto alcuna sia di chi essere si voglia<…>’.
42 Pagano 1991, cites various documents preserved in the Archivio del Sant’Offizio/ Con-
gregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, Città del Vaticano; p. 197, n. 15, Camillo Campeggi
to Scipione Rebiba, Mantua 18 June 1568: ‘Mandarò li contrassegni di Giacobo Strada e vi
porrò anche delle spie dietro per saper ove sarà ’; id. p. 199, n. 22, Campeggi to Rebibba,
Mantua 25 June 1568: ‘Mando la descrittione che ho potuta havere di quel Giacobo Strada
antiquario dell’Imperatore, accioché si possi procurar di haverlo nelle mani’; in the at-
tached ‘identikit’ Strada is described as ‘mantovano antiquario; è di pelo rosso che tiro al
nero overo al scuro, comincia a far la barba canuta, può havere cinquanta anni, di statura
mezzana, et è prosperoso. Habita in Vienna et ha una moglie alemana; era questa Assensa
passata in Venetia et allogiava a mezzo la marzaria in casa di uno che dà il lustro alli spec-
chi, apresso di una chiesiola che qual credo si dimandi San Giuliano. Egli in Venetia facea
lavorare delle teste di marmore per lo imperatore, e forse vi sarà anchora al presente’.
Pagano reads ‘Assensa’ as the name of Strada’s wife, which is obviously mistaken; I take it
to refer to the feast of the Ascension at which time Strada had been spotted in Venice.
43 Docs. 1568-10-01 and 1568-10-11. From Strada’s phrasing thanking Duke Guglielmo for his
decision as to the safe-conduct Maximilian ii had requested on his behalf it is not clear
whether the request had been accorded or refused; if so, Strada did not trust it sufficiently
to make use of it, and he appears never to have returned to his native city.
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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
The Antique as Innovation, Band 2
- Titel
- Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
- Untertitel
- The Antique as Innovation
- Band
- 2
- Autor
- Dirk Jacob Jansen
- Verlag
- Brill
- Ort
- Leiden
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-35949-9
- Abmessungen
- 15.8 x 24.1 cm
- Seiten
- 542
- Kategorien
- Biographien
- Kunst und Kultur
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 11 The Musaeum: Strada’s Circle 547
- 11.1 Strada’s House 547
- 11.2 High-ranking Visitors: Strada’s Guest Book and Ottavio’s Stammbuch 548
- 11.3 ‘Urbanissime Strada’: Accessibility of and Hospitality in the Musaeum 554
- 11.4 Intellectual Associates 556
- 11.5 Strada’s Confessional Position 566
- 11.6 Contacts with Members of the Dynasty 570
- 12 The Musaeum: its Contents 576
- 12.1 Introduction 576
- 12.2 Strada’s own Descriptions of his Musaeum 577
- 12.3 Strada’s Acquisitions for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria 580
- 12.4 Strada’s own Cabinet of Antiquities 592
- 12.5 Acquisitions of Other Materials in Venice 599
- 12.6 Commissions in Mantua 610
- 12.7 ‘Gemalte Lustigen Tiecher’: Contemporary Painting in Strada’s Musaeum 615
- 12.8 Conclusion 628
- 13 Books, Prints and Drawings: The Musaeum as a centre of visualdocumentation 629
- 13.1 Introduction 629
- 13.2 Strada’s Acquisition of Drawings 630
- 13.3 ‘Owls to Athens’: Some Documents Relating to Strada’s GraphicCollection 634
- 13.4 The Contents of Strada’s Collection of Prints and Drawings 641
- 13.5 Later Fate of Strada’s Prints and Drawings 647
- 13.6 Drawings Preserved in a Context Linking Them withStrada 649
- 13.7 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Antiquity 673
- 13.8 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Contemporary Architecture and Decoration 692
- 13.9 Images as a Source of Knowledge 711
- 13.10 Conclusion 717
- 14 ‘Ex Musaeo et Impensis Jacobi Stradae, S.C.M. Antiquarius, CivisRomani’: Strada’s Frustrated Ambitions as a Publisher 719
- 14.1 Is There Life beyond the Court? 719
- 14.2 Strada’s Family 719
- 14.3 Ottavio Strada’s Role 725
- 14.4 The Publishing Project: Strada Ambitions as a Publisher 728
- 14.5 The Musaeum as an Editorial Office? 739
- 14.6 Financing the Programme 752
- 14.7 The Index Sive Catalogus 760
- 14.8 Strada’s Approach of Christophe Plantin 775
- 14.9 The Rupture with Ottavio 781
- 14.10 Strada’s Testamentary Disposition 783
- 14.11 Conclusion: The Aftermath 786
- 15 Le Cose dell’antichità : Strada as a Student of Antiquity 799
- 16 Strada & Co.: By Appointment to His Majesty the Emperor 830
- 16.1 Strada as an Imperial Antiquary and Architect 830
- 16.2 Strada’s Role as an Agent 836
- 16.3 Strada as an Independent Agent 840
- 16.4 ‘Ex Musaeo Iacobi de Strada’: Study, Studio, Workshop, Office, Showroom 843
- 16.5 Strada’s Influence: An Agent of Change 849
- 16.6 Conclusion: Strada’s Personality 863
- 16.7 Epilogue: Back to the Portrait 868
- Appendices 877
- Chronological List of Sources 915
- Bibliography 932
- List of Illustrations 986
- Index 1038