FONTES 70 presents a letter from the Bolognese prelate Carlo Serpa to Giorgio Vasari (1561) and twelve related documents that clarify the place of Serpa in the worlds of Vasari, Pietro Aretino, and Titian and also reveal his activities as an arbiter of patronage and art dealer in Rome, Florence, Venice, and, beyond the Alps, in Bavaria. These letters are considered in the context of Vasari’s literary remains, and, in particular, in…
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