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Italian medals (1904)

Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910 · London : Duckworth · leaf 184

An illustration from Italian medals, 1904, leaf 184
oth. Giovanna died after havinggiven birth to her third child, and when barely thirty-one years old Lorenzo, with four of his associates, wasbeheaded in 1497 as a participator in the conspiracy for therestoration of the banished Medici to Florence. The reverseof his medal displays a barocco winged… … Face p. 124 Florentine Medals and was probably excavated in the last quarter of the fifteenthcentury in Rome. The restorations on the medal of thearms—which are missing in the marble statue—correspond,curiously enough, even to the flowers in the hands of thegoddess, with an ancient painting from…

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