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753Ambitions
as a Publisher
this, his conviction was such that from about this time onward a great part of
his energy was invested, not only in finishing the works he intended to include
in his programme, but also to bring together the funds needed to cover the
necessary initial investments.
In this he first of all reckoned on his most important patron, Emperor Maxi-
milian ii. The first instance of this is Strada’s request presented to Maximilian
sometime before 30 June 1573. In this he described his corpus of inscriptions
in seven volumes, and the first volume, the letter A, of his polyglot dictionary.71
He then explained that he wishes to print these books, but that he lacks the
necessary funds, so he asks the Emperor for ‘un buon aiuto di costa’, a sub-
vention to enable him to bring out his books with dedications to Maximilian
and his sons. Strada was realistic enough to realize that the Emperor could or
would not cover such expense all by himself, so in one breath he asked for let-
ters recommending his project to other potential sponsors: the councils of the
free Imperial cities and the most prominent Princes of the Empire.72 To speed
up his request, which was supported by Reichart Strein von Schwarzenau,
Strada added his own concept of the letter of recommendation, the titles of
the books involved carefully copied out. The requested letters were duly made
71 Doc. 1573-06-00: ‘Mi trovo sette gran volumi scritti di lettere maiuscule, parte latine e parte
greche, dove sonno tutte le inscriptioni antiche, che in varie parte del mondo si trovano;
e perchè sonno molti anni che io le ò messo insieme, imperò con hanimo di publicarle
sotto il nome della Sacra Cesarea Maestà Vostra alla stampa a commune utilità di cias-
cheduno. Son anche al fine della lettera A del mio Dictionario delle xi lingue, le quali
sonno queste: Latina, graeca, hebraea, chaldaea, spagnuola, francese, tedescha, bohema,
hyllira, cioè chiavona [sic], et italiana. Vi sonno in questo libro d’hogni sorte di medaglie
et antiquità in dissegno, si come la Sacra Cesarea Maestà Vostra à visto nel mio studio ulti-
mamente, le quali vanno poste ciascheduna al suo luogho’. It is interesting to note that the
eleven languages of the dictionary are not always the same, those of the Slavic territories
under Maximilian’s rule for this occasion supplanting the Arabic and Persian mentioned
elsewhere (cf. below). Doubtless Turkish would have been the eleventh language, omitted
apparently by mistake.
72 Doc. 1573-06-00: ‘Sacra Maestà , io voria far stampar questi libri in Francoforte, ma la mia
bursa è troppo picolina alla grande spesa che vi andara. Suplisco la Maestà Vostra che non
mi voglia abandonare di un buona aiuto di costa, acciò si possino publicare questi libri
sotto al felicissimo nome Suo, et delli Serenissimi Suoi figliuoli. Overo, se la Maestà Vostra
non mi vol dar aiuto di danari, suplisco quella mi voglia dar aiuto con lettere, scritte di
buono inchiostro, alle città libere e franche che qui sonno sotto nominate, cioè una let-
tera per cadauna città : Ratisbona, Nurimberga, Augusta, Ulma, Francoforte, Spira, Argen-
tina, Wormatia. E perchè l’aiuto di queste sudette città non bastaranno, suplisco Vostra
Maestà Cesarea apresso una lettera a cadauno di questi Principi qui sotto nominati, cioè
l’Altezza del Principe Ferdinando et il Principe Carlo, et l’ Excellenza del Ducha di Baviera,
et delli sei Elettori, con questi tre Vescovi apresso: Passa, Wirzpurg, et Pamberg’. [added in
margin: Salzburg].
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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