Daniel Matteo Alvise Barbaro (Venice, 8 February 1514 – 13 April 1570), a Venetian nobleman renowned for his commentaries on and translations of Vitruvius, served as Patriarch of Aquileia from 1550. He studied philosophy, mathematics, and optics at the University of Padua and served the Venetian Republic as ambassador to the English court of Elizabeth I and as a representative at the Council of Trent. Among his principal works are La Predica dei sogni (1542), published under the pseudonym of the Reverend Father Hypneo da Schio, the Dieci libri dell’architettura di M. Vitruvio (1556) and La practica della perspettiva (1568), a treatise on perspective intended for architects and artists. See Hugh James Rose, A New General Biographical Dictionary (Londres, 1857), III, 136-137; y Jane Turner, Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art (New York, 2000), I, 112–113. A sustained correspondence between BAM and the Venetian ecclesiastic Daniel Barbaro is preserved, spanning from the royal chaplain’s arrival in Antwerp in mid-1568 until Barbaro’s death in 1570. The Stockholm manuscript contains seven letters from Barbaro to BAM, dated 29 August 1568, 29 October 1568, 1 January 1569, 1 March 1569, 16 April 1569, 1 May 1569, and 23 July 1569.

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