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OTHER MEDALS CLOSE TO MARESCOTTI
9°-3
Arm. II, 67, 32 (54x53 mm.). [a. Pl. 21.]
(a) Gustave Dreyfus, 54 x 53 mm. Arm., loc. cit. Foville
in Rev. Num., loc. cit. La Coll. Dreyfus, p. 9, no. x
(‘ Sperandio ’).
In spite of difference in detail, this bust is probably based
on the same model as no. 88. Foville refuses the two pieces
to Sperandio, and attributes them to Marescotti, taking A. F.
as his signature.
PAVONI (Vittore), official at Ferrara, and
Taddea, his wife.
90. Obv. +VICTOR • PAVON1VS • SCR1BA • ET •
ORATOR • DVCALIS • IN • AMANT1SS • CONIVGEM .
TADEAM and across field EGREG1E Pivs Bust
r., with short hair, wearing cap with soft crown
and edge turned up all round, and pleated and
figured robe.
Rev. • TADEA • PAVON1A . PI1 • CONIVGIS • VIC
TORIS’AMANTISSIMA(wavyflourish) Busti.,wearing
veil over back of head, and figured dress.
Arm. I, 30, 9 (89 mm.). Cicogna, Iscr. Ven., iii, p. 486
(specimen in Museo Gradenigo at Santa Giustina). Hab.,
Pl. xviii, 2. [a. Pl. 21.]
(a) London, V. A. M. (Salting), f 90 mm. Perhaps the
Addington specimen (Ratal., no. 9, ex Bale Cat., no.
2157). (^) Milan (Med. Mun.), f 89 mm. Tooled.
(c) Another (Brera), old lead cast, painted, in bad state.
(d) Paris, Tres. de Num. II, xxx, 2.
Not dissimilar in modelling and lettering to Marescotti’s
accredited work, and unduly depreciated by Armand. Pavoni
is mentioned as Ducal Chancellor at Ferrara in 1463.
OTHER MEDALS CLOSE TO MARESCOTTI
SFORZA (Ginevra), wife of Giov. II Benti-
voglio.
91. Obv. + DIVAE • GENEVRAElSFORTIAE:BENT!
VOLLAE Bust 1., wearing jewelled head-dress,
rising at the back with short veil falling, curls
on temple, back hair held up with band; double
pearl necklace and bodice covered with scale-
pattern.
Rev. None.
Arm. II, 66, 23 (85 mm.). Fabr., p. 92, Pl. xix, 2.
[f. Pl. 21.]
(fl) Milan, 83 mm. Litta, Bentivoglio, no. 9. Heiss, Sper-
andio, p. 76, no. 4, Pl. xv, 3. (Z>) Vienna, 84 mm. After-
cast. Heraeus, Pl. 58,4. (c) T. W. Greene, lead, 86 mm.,
ex Douglas Ratal., no. 56).
Fabriczy’s date of about 1480 seems too late for this. It
is very close in style to some of Marescotti’s medals, e. g.
the Galeazzo Maria Sforza, in general conception as well
as in lettering (N with cross bar not reaching to the ends
of the uprights, R with small loop and long leg). It was
probably made, if not by Marescotti himself—of whom it is
quite worthy—then by some close imitator at the time of
the lady’s marriage to Bentivoglio in 1464. She would
then be perhaps 30 years of age.
SALIM BENE (Gracia), of Ferrara.
92. Obv. +EXCLARA • DOMO • GRASIAS • SALIN
BENE • FERRAR1ESIS Bust of young man 1., with
thick hair to nape of neck, wearing cap with
fluted crown and edge turned up all round;
embroidered coat with pleated front over doublet
with close collar.
Rev. +INS1GNIA VIR1 PRES TANT! s Arms of
Salimbeni on a tilting-shield with sunk field
and roped edge, surmounted by a cherub’s
head; on either side an angel, that on dexter side
fiddling (?), that on sinister side playing a lute.
(fl) Berlin, f 67 mm. Hab., p. 144, note 39. Bernhart
in Archiv, v (1925-6), p. 85, Pl. xiv, 3. [Pl. 21.]
Habich places this between Coradino and Baldassare
d’ Este. It seems closer to Marescotti than to these. To
be noted is the sinking of the central part of the design, as
on the medals of San Bernardino. The crosses in the
inscriptions suggest that the medal is a memorial. The
Salimbeni bore gu., three fusils or.
CASSANDRA.
93. Obv. DIVACASSANDRAFELIXS1NONSAXEAFV
ERIS Bust 1., placed on a plinth, of Cassandra
wearing veil (over large horn on temple); dress
embroidered and pleated in front.
Rev. CEP1ST1 • QVI • RELIQVAS • ANTA • SPER
hEDO • SVPERAV1T*: Cassandra standing 1.
holding recumbent unicorn by its horn and
a cord round neck; the beast holds a branch
in its r. forehoof; in field on 1. a six-rayed star
and blown mass of flame (as on medal of
Elisabetta Gonzaga, no. 344), on r. crescent
moon and eight-rayed star. The unicorn appears
to have two tails, one smooth, the other bushy.
Arm. II, 75, 7 (50 mm.). Hab., Pl. xvii, 3. [6. Pl. 21.]
(a) Milan (Brera), f 50 mm., with loop for suspension.
(b) Vienna, 50 mm. = Arm., loc. cit., and III, 184,
North Italian, possibly Ferrarese, not much later than
1450. Bears no resemblance to, and is earlier than, Cas-
sandra Fedele (see no. 972). Habich attributes it to Mares-
cotti, with some plausibility.
The unicorn, who despises other (unchaste) women and
overcomes them, is taken captive by Cassandra, who would
be happy if she had not a heart of stone.
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9°-3
Arm. II, 67, 32 (54x53 mm.). [a. Pl. 21.]
(a) Gustave Dreyfus, 54 x 53 mm. Arm., loc. cit. Foville
in Rev. Num., loc. cit. La Coll. Dreyfus, p. 9, no. x
(‘ Sperandio ’).
In spite of difference in detail, this bust is probably based
on the same model as no. 88. Foville refuses the two pieces
to Sperandio, and attributes them to Marescotti, taking A. F.
as his signature.
PAVONI (Vittore), official at Ferrara, and
Taddea, his wife.
90. Obv. +VICTOR • PAVON1VS • SCR1BA • ET •
ORATOR • DVCALIS • IN • AMANT1SS • CONIVGEM .
TADEAM and across field EGREG1E Pivs Bust
r., with short hair, wearing cap with soft crown
and edge turned up all round, and pleated and
figured robe.
Rev. • TADEA • PAVON1A . PI1 • CONIVGIS • VIC
TORIS’AMANTISSIMA(wavyflourish) Busti.,wearing
veil over back of head, and figured dress.
Arm. I, 30, 9 (89 mm.). Cicogna, Iscr. Ven., iii, p. 486
(specimen in Museo Gradenigo at Santa Giustina). Hab.,
Pl. xviii, 2. [a. Pl. 21.]
(a) London, V. A. M. (Salting), f 90 mm. Perhaps the
Addington specimen (Ratal., no. 9, ex Bale Cat., no.
2157). (^) Milan (Med. Mun.), f 89 mm. Tooled.
(c) Another (Brera), old lead cast, painted, in bad state.
(d) Paris, Tres. de Num. II, xxx, 2.
Not dissimilar in modelling and lettering to Marescotti’s
accredited work, and unduly depreciated by Armand. Pavoni
is mentioned as Ducal Chancellor at Ferrara in 1463.
OTHER MEDALS CLOSE TO MARESCOTTI
SFORZA (Ginevra), wife of Giov. II Benti-
voglio.
91. Obv. + DIVAE • GENEVRAElSFORTIAE:BENT!
VOLLAE Bust 1., wearing jewelled head-dress,
rising at the back with short veil falling, curls
on temple, back hair held up with band; double
pearl necklace and bodice covered with scale-
pattern.
Rev. None.
Arm. II, 66, 23 (85 mm.). Fabr., p. 92, Pl. xix, 2.
[f. Pl. 21.]
(fl) Milan, 83 mm. Litta, Bentivoglio, no. 9. Heiss, Sper-
andio, p. 76, no. 4, Pl. xv, 3. (Z>) Vienna, 84 mm. After-
cast. Heraeus, Pl. 58,4. (c) T. W. Greene, lead, 86 mm.,
ex Douglas Ratal., no. 56).
Fabriczy’s date of about 1480 seems too late for this. It
is very close in style to some of Marescotti’s medals, e. g.
the Galeazzo Maria Sforza, in general conception as well
as in lettering (N with cross bar not reaching to the ends
of the uprights, R with small loop and long leg). It was
probably made, if not by Marescotti himself—of whom it is
quite worthy—then by some close imitator at the time of
the lady’s marriage to Bentivoglio in 1464. She would
then be perhaps 30 years of age.
SALIM BENE (Gracia), of Ferrara.
92. Obv. +EXCLARA • DOMO • GRASIAS • SALIN
BENE • FERRAR1ESIS Bust of young man 1., with
thick hair to nape of neck, wearing cap with
fluted crown and edge turned up all round;
embroidered coat with pleated front over doublet
with close collar.
Rev. +INS1GNIA VIR1 PRES TANT! s Arms of
Salimbeni on a tilting-shield with sunk field
and roped edge, surmounted by a cherub’s
head; on either side an angel, that on dexter side
fiddling (?), that on sinister side playing a lute.
(fl) Berlin, f 67 mm. Hab., p. 144, note 39. Bernhart
in Archiv, v (1925-6), p. 85, Pl. xiv, 3. [Pl. 21.]
Habich places this between Coradino and Baldassare
d’ Este. It seems closer to Marescotti than to these. To
be noted is the sinking of the central part of the design, as
on the medals of San Bernardino. The crosses in the
inscriptions suggest that the medal is a memorial. The
Salimbeni bore gu., three fusils or.
CASSANDRA.
93. Obv. DIVACASSANDRAFELIXS1NONSAXEAFV
ERIS Bust 1., placed on a plinth, of Cassandra
wearing veil (over large horn on temple); dress
embroidered and pleated in front.
Rev. CEP1ST1 • QVI • RELIQVAS • ANTA • SPER
hEDO • SVPERAV1T*: Cassandra standing 1.
holding recumbent unicorn by its horn and
a cord round neck; the beast holds a branch
in its r. forehoof; in field on 1. a six-rayed star
and blown mass of flame (as on medal of
Elisabetta Gonzaga, no. 344), on r. crescent
moon and eight-rayed star. The unicorn appears
to have two tails, one smooth, the other bushy.
Arm. II, 75, 7 (50 mm.). Hab., Pl. xvii, 3. [6. Pl. 21.]
(a) Milan (Brera), f 50 mm., with loop for suspension.
(b) Vienna, 50 mm. = Arm., loc. cit., and III, 184,
North Italian, possibly Ferrarese, not much later than
1450. Bears no resemblance to, and is earlier than, Cas-
sandra Fedele (see no. 972). Habich attributes it to Mares-
cotti, with some plausibility.
The unicorn, who despises other (unchaste) women and
overcomes them, is taken captive by Cassandra, who would
be happy if she had not a heart of stone.
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