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greatest artistic and literary figures of the time (Aretino, Titian, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo …), and the most eminent members of the Roman intelligentsia such as the humanist clerics Angelo Colocci and Marcello Cervini (the future Pope Marcello II), but also to acquire direct knowledge of the most important architectural creations of the time (such as the construction of St Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, the Laurenziana library, etc.) and to combine this with detailed study of ancient ruins in Verona, Rimini, Spoleto, Naples, and, especially, Rome (Wiebenson 1988, 67–74; Lemerle 1991, VII-XV). 

It was through Cervini, a keen scholar of alchemy, medicine and architecture, that Philandrier was admitted to the Accademia della Virtù (of which Cervini was a member).

Kommentar: Sowohl für die Cervini zugeschriebenen Fächer (unter denen Mathematik, Astronomie und Chronologie markanterweise fehlen!) sowie die Behauptung, Cervini habe Philandrier Zugang zur Accademia verschafft, hätte man gern Belege …

This Roma academy had been founded by Claudio Tolomei from Siena during the winter of 1540–41 to develop the study in, and publication of, Roman antiquities, and notably publish an edition of Vitruvius with a commentary, destined never to see the light of day (Tolomei 1547; Pagliara 1986, 67–85). Moreover, Philandrier associated with the Sangallos: Antonio da Sangallo was interested in the theoretical problems arising from the reading of the De Architectura, and his brother Giovanni Battista 

[Fortsetzung auf S. 188]