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Chapter 15806 Figure 15.1 Pirro Ligorio, the title page of his Libro delle antichità di Roma, nel quale si tratta de’ circi, theatri et Anfitheatri, Venice 1553. Figure 15.2 Simon Frisius, after Antonio Moro, portrait of Hubertus Goltzius; engraving from Effigies pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae inferioris, The Hague, 1610. study on Vico, Giulio Bodon moreover suggests a hypothetical project of col- laboration between Strada and Vico, on the basis of their shared interest in the designs of the friezes of the Columns of Trajan.15 Strada’s letter to Maximilian ii suggests that, as an antiquary, he would have felt most akin to these three artist-antiquaries, and the passage from Agustín’s treatise implies that such a conception of the antiquary as a professional combining erudition and artistic prowess was not unusual. 15 June 1567 [BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 35–36/29–30; cf. above, Ch. 2.5.2]. But they appear to have corresponded, and Strada remained in contact with the Ferrara court also through Giovan Battista Pigna, Alfonso ii’s secretary and historiographer. 15 Bodon 1997, p. 82.