ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a quotation from one of Gerolamo Garimberto letters concerning what he judged to be a major catch. Garimberto was almost sixty-three years old when, on 25 September 1568, he wrote of his desire to visit Cardinal Alessandro Farnese at Caprarola. Various hints exist in surviving documents of the degree to which Italian princes relied on Garimberto’s judgment and authority in ecclesiastical matters, and indeed these services are referred to on the inscription which forms part of Garimberto’s mortuary monument in the Church of San Giovanni in Laterano. Garimberto was fifty-nine years old at the time of the Lisca purchase and shortly thereafter he arranged for de’Cavalieri to have access to his collection to make the drawings of twenty-five of his pieces. The claims Boyer made for a Rossi provenance for Garimberto’s marbles have recently been made for the antiquities owned by the Bishop of Viterbo, Sebastiano Gualterio.
