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eras dick semper, sed nescio eras illud. Versus tuos apud
me reservabo in eorum editionem."; Antwerp, 25 July
1583 (Ortels 1847, p. 92).The verses mentioned may be
the same as the ones referred to in 1573 (see note 77) and
below in Crato's letter of 1583 (note 81).They have not
been used, as underneath Crato s portrait are lines writ­
ten by Frans van Ravelingen.
81. "Clarorurn quoque virorum Galaei men-
tionem a te factam affirmabat. Nihilne, inquam ad me;
Nihil ille ..... Sed omitto banc Philosophiam, et te oro in
suscepta erga me benevolentia rnaneas, atque si meos ver­
sus accepisri, quid de ijs sit factum, signifiées.Àveo videre
Philippi Gallaej elaborationes, licet exiguam earn nomin-
is commendationem putem, quae ex pictura petitur, Ac
nunc alia immortalitas spes atque cura et longe verier,
quam ea quae in humanis rebus est, me sollicitât .....";
Johannes Crato to Abraham Ortels, Wroclaw (Breslau)
10 September 1583 (Hessels 1887, pp. 296-297). For
Galle s portrait of Crato, see appendix 2E, no. 38. It is inter­
esting to compare this portrait to an anonymous, oval
engraving dated 1574. Galle clearly copied this portrait in
reverse, also repeating the caption around this earlier
engraving. Galle could have known the impression of this
portrait pasted in the Album amkorum of Abraham Ortels;
Puraye 1969,p. 18, fig. 8.This implies that Galle, for what­
ever reason, m the end did not use the above drawing by
Martino Rota. In a copy of the 1572-edition of portraits
in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague a proof
impression of Crato s portrait is added at the back of the
volume. This impression lacks the verses in the margin.
82. Benavides 1566. For an analysis of this series,
see Dwyer 1990.The engraved portraits are attributed to
EneaVico. The Venetian publisher Niccolô NeBi issued a
second edition in 1567. A second, supplementary volume
was published in Venice in 1570, presumably again by
Nelli.
83. Scholars both found in Galle s Imagines docio-
rum virorum and in Lairerï s lïïustrium iureconsuliorum imag­
ines zt^AccQxm^Bzxtolo da SassoferratQ JAnge!o da Castro,
Paolo da Castro, Francesco Corti, Filippo Decio,Jason de
Maino, Dino Rossoni, Alessandro Tartagni and
Ubaldesehi. Both also include a nearly identical portrait
of Martinus ab Azpilcueta, whom Galle does not classify-
as a jurist (see above). For all individual portraits, compare
appendix 2E (sub voce).
Notes Chapter 2
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84. Compare also the much more documented
life of Christophe Plantin during the years 1572-1585;
Voet 1969-72, vol. 1, pp. 73-113. Particularly the hopes
Plantin cherished on the arrival of William of Orange -
one of the political champions of the concept of religious
tolerance - in Antwerp in 1579 is characteristic; ibid. pp.
97-98. A recapitulation of the views on tolerance around
William of Orange can be found inVroom 1984 and espe­
cially in Van Deursen 1984. Detailed information on the
complex religious situation in Antwerp around 1585 can
be found in the various essays in Andriessen 1987.
85. Cp. appendix 2C.
86. Cp. appendix 2G (Cardinals) and appendix 211
(Jesuits).The first series is extensively discussed by J. Fabri
in Bibliotheca Belgica, vol. 6, pp. 193-197.The series will
also be listed in Dirk Imhof's forthcoming catalogue of
books printed and published by Jan Morenis. All letter­
press text was set and printed by the Plantin Press, as pay­
ments of December 1597 and January 1598 show. I kind­
ly thank Dirk Imhof for providing me with this
information from his manuscript, where the publication
will be listed as no. G-l
87. The portraits taken from earlier series are those
of Adrian VI, Bembo, FisherJ iozjusz Jimenez de Cisneros
and Sadoleto. Compare appendix 2E (sub voce). Using
existing copperplates for another publication is rather typ­
ical of the practical use publishers as Galle made of their
stock. Engraved copperplates were the most valuable asset
of any print publisher. Compare, again, the well docu­
mented case of Christophe Plantin, whose estate in 1589
included no less than 2.391 copperplates;Voet 1969-72,
vol. 2. pp. 231-232.Their value was estimated inter alia by
Philips Galle.
88. Cp. Fabri s remarks in the Bibliotheca Belgica,
loacit. (note 86) .Without any apparent reason Fabri leaves
out Philips Galle - who is explicitly mentioned as the
publisher on the title page of the Cardinalium illustrium
imagines - in his discussion on the genesis of the book.
The first version of the portrait of Andreas Schorr (as
reproduced in % 28) was included in the Imagines docto-
rum virorum of 1587 (appendix 2E, no. 124).This engrav­
ing by Philips Galle was consequently replaced by anoth­
er portrait of Schott, engraved by Theodoor Galle, in the
1595- and 1606 reissues of the Imagines doctorum virorum
(appendix 2E, no. 125). The theologian and philologist