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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Federico Barocci (1535-1612) has always held a special place in studies of the patronage of Filippo Neri's Roman Congregation of the Oratory. The problem is how to quantify the affinity between artist and patron without slipping into zeitgeist historicism. A close chronological examination of documents surrounding Barocci's commissions to Oratorians and other patrons like Cardinal Federico Borromeo and Pope Clement VIII shows a coordinated effort within a larger orbit.
This research was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, for which I am grateful. I wish to express my thanks to Marcia Hall, who helped me first express these ideas; Padre Alberto Venturoli of the Archivio of the Chiesa Nuova; and Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Sig. Nino Cellamaro and the staff of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, for aiding my research. Pamela Jones very generously allowed me to check my transcription of letters 1176 and 1177 and provided the text of letters 1301 and 1302, and offered kind encouragement. In this study, the following abbreviations are used: ACO: Archivio della Congregazione dell'Oratorio di Roma; ACN: Archivio della Congregazione Napoli; ASFD: Archivio Storico della Fabbrica del Duomo (Milan); BA: Biblioteca Ambrosiana.