Last week I had a most welcome letter from Your Honour, to which I have not responded at once as was my intention, because my wife suffered from such a grave illness of the chest, that in the five days that she was in bed the doctors have never been able to help her and thus she has passed to a better life. 2 Strada’s consciously stoic report to his old friend Jacopo Dani of her death in September 1574 suggests a basically happy marriage: Apart from her name we know hardly anything about Strada’s wife, but she must have had certain talents, if Strada could leave his house and affairs in her hands during his frequent and long absences. 1 By that time his family consisted of his wife, Ottilie Schenk von Rossberg, his sons Paolo (Nuremberg 1548) and Ottavio (Nuremberg 1550) and doubtless also at least the daughter on the occasion of whose wedding in 1569 Maximilian ii accorded Strada a gift of 50 Gulden. Shortly after his first contacts with Ferdinand i Strada came to Vienna, apparently ready to settle at court, because he had brought his wife and household.
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Before discussing the activities he undertook simultaneously but quite separately from his tasks at court and after his resignation, it is useful briefly to sketch his private circumstances, with a view of the role his family played in his professional life. His occupations before he came to Vienna have been described in my earlier chapters. Nevertheless neither Strada’s usefulness for Ferdinand i and Maximilian ii and the character of the return they expected from his presence at court, nor Strada’s view of his chosen profession can be explained without reference to the activities he engaged in independently from his work at court.
Even within the context of his career as a whole, such ample attention is warranted by the length of Strada’s employment, the importance of his patrons, and the value he himself attached to his status as an Imperial servant and courtier. For that reason the greater part of the preceding chapters has been devoted to Strada’s coming to the Vienna court and his subsequent employment in Imperial service. One of the principal purposes of this study is better to understand the nature of Strada’s function at court, as an indispensable condition to appreciate the significance of his presence for Imperial intellectual and artistic patronage and, more in general, for the cultural history in the Habsburg territories and Southern Germany.
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