The Jacobean Grand Tour by Edward Chaney Timothy Wilks

Author:Edward Chaney, Timothy Wilks [Edward Chaney, Timothy Wilks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Art, History, General, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Europe, Renaissance, Architecture, Social History, Modern, 16th Century
ISBN: 9780857735317
Google: abiKDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-12-13T03:34:25+00:00

Various young Englishmen, itinerant and resident, encountered Fialetti through Wotton, including the same peripatetic William Cecil, Lord Roos, who had explored the ‘South partes of Fraunce’ ahead of his cousin, Cranborne. After provocatively visiting Naples and Rome, a journey that alarmed the Protestant element both within his family and the English court, Roos arrived in Venice with Lord St Joh

n in December 1608. They had probably not been to the city before, as it was during this stay that Wotton presented the young barons to the Doge, though Roos had been in northern Italy as early as 1607.36

A decade later, during Wotton’s second ambassadorship to Venice, Roos reappeared. On this occasion Fialetti dedicated to him his Scherzi d’amore, a series of etchings of Venus and Cupid with accompanying verses by D. Maurizio Moro, an act that is unlikely to have been done without his knowing that Roos had recently abandoned his wife, the daughter of Secretary of State, Sir Thomas Lake (Figure 88).37 Thereafter, Roos would be unlikely to return to England and was at last free to declare his Catholic faith. Fialetti also sold him some pictures and it was possibly he who guided him to Domenico Tintoretto’s, where Roos bought more; but if he hoped for the patronage of this free-spending English nobleman he was to be disappointed, for within a few months Roos succumbed to fever near Naples, his favourite haunt.38 Fialetti dedicated etchings to a visiting Englishman on another occasion: to the Earl of Arundel (‘Baron e Cavalier da Rondel’) during his formative tour of Italy in 1613–14 when the latter would already have appeared to Fialetti as an extraordinary collector and connoisseur. A few years later, in 1622, he got to know Edward Norgate who was within the circle of Aletheia, Countess of Arundel during her stay in the Veneto, who, possibly following Norgate’s introduction, took to Fialetti so much that several times she richly rewarded him (Figure 89).39 It was presumably the Countess’s generosity that encouraged Tizianello to dedicate his 1622 biography of Titian to her.40

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