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PART V
856-9
supplied by M. Bourgey. Much tooled, (c) Reproduc-
tion at Paris (Armand-Valton), f 53 mm.
The obverse legend, based on the preceding medal, ends
Iust(itiae) Pa(cis) Q(ue) C(ultor); the reverse is to be ex-
panded Molem Adrianam vallis fossis propugnaculis corri-
dorisque cinxit.
On the works at Castel Sant’ Angelo, see Rodocanachi,
op. cit., pp. 94 ff. This second medal is of very coarse
work. Both were probably foundation-pieces.
Czobor thinks) at the time of his later visit in 1512, especially
seeing that his patriarchal dignity is not mentioned.
The motto, as Prof. Bensly suggests, looks like an ex-
pansion of Virtuti fortuna comes (or virtutis); see Alciati,
Embl., cxix (ed. 1621) and Dielitz, Wahl- und Denkspriiche.
A large medallion, unlettered, of this man is illustrated
by Berzeviczy, Beatrix Kirdlyne (1908), p. 501, but I have
been unable to discover where it is. The diameter appears
to be about 120 mm.
856. Obv. v ALEXANDER * VI * ▼ PONT * MAXI
MVS v Bust 1., tonsured, wearing cope with
decorated orphrey, morse with winged (?) facing
head. Pearled border.
Rev. v OB V SAPIENTIAM y CVM y FORTVNA y
CONIVNCv The Borgia ox standing r., head
to front; a hovering angel places a wreath on
his head; before him a small sheaf, a bunch
of flowers (?), and a palm-branch falling to the
ground. Pearled border.
Arm. II, 63, 9 (36 mm.). Bonanni, i, p. 115, no. 5.
Venuti, p. 43, no. ii. Tres. de Num. I, xxv, 4. Martinori,
op. cit., p. 22, d. Hab., Pl. Ixvii, 1. [b. Pl. 138.]
(a) Florence, 34 mm. Sup., no. 193. (6) London (George
III), lead, | 35-5 mm. Hill, Rom. Med., p. 42, Pl. vii, 6.
The attribution to Caradosso has been considered (Hill,
loc. cit., Habich). If the medal refers to Alexander’s
triumphal return to Rome on 27 June 1495, as Woodward
has suggested, Caradosso was not there then; he had
arrived in Rome on 23 Feb. 1495, the Pope left on 27 May,
and Caradosso was back in Milan, it would seem, by
24 June. But this last fact is not quite certain (see Hill,
op. cit., p. 43, note 2).
BAKOCZ (Thomas), Primate of Hungary.
857. Obv. (leaf) THOMAS • CAR • STRIGON • VN
GAR*PRIMAS Bust 1., elderly, tonsured, wear-
ing rochet. Pearled border.
Rev. SVM Y DEA Y V1RTVTI y 1VRE y LOCATA y
COMES Fortune, nude, with long fore-lock,
moving 1. on dolphin over sea; she holds yard
of sail in r., and sheet in 1.; rocks to 1. and r.;
behind her, head of a wind blowing, and above
it, a winged putto standing 1. on a dragon,
blowing a trumpet and accompanied by an
eagle. Pearled border.
Arm. HI, 210,77 (64mm.). Bergmann, Medaillen auf be-
ruhmte und ausgezeichnete Manner des Oesterr. Kaiserstaates,
i (1844), pp. 55-60. B. Czobor in Archdeologiai Ertesito
(1889), pp. 118-19. [c. PL 138.]
(a) Budapest, Nat. Mus., ex Szechenyi, J 65mm. Czobor,
loc. cit. Good. (Z>) Florence, 64 mm. Sup., no. 842.
Fair, (c) London (George HI), J 64mm. Burl. Mag.,
xxii (1912), p. 132, Pl. e.
Thomas Bakocz of Erdod, born about 1432 (he was in
his 80th year when he visited Rome in 1512), became Arch-
bishop of Gran (Strigonium) and Primate of Hungary on
20 Dec. 1497, Cardinal on 28 Sept. 1500, and Patriarch of
Constantinople on 30 Oct. 1507. He died on n June 1521.
On this medal, which is of Italian work, and may perhaps
have been made in Rome, he looks elderly but not so old as
eighty. It seems more probable therefore that it was made
at the time of his promotion to the Cardinalate, than (as
BIVAR Y MENDOZA (Don Rodrigo de).
858. Obv. MARCHIO y RODER1CVS « DE ► BIVAR y
Bust r., with long hair, wearing tall cap with
knot at side, and cloak; strap (baldric?) over
r. shoulder. Plain border.
Rev. QVORVMyOPVS AD ESTyAETATISy
ANO y XXVI a Mars and Venus; on 1., Mars
(y mars y) in crested helmet and cuirass, spear
in r., shield on 1. arm, standing r., confronting
Venus (yVENVSy), who stands 1., nude but for
scarf held in both hands across middle, in
raised r. flame-tipped arrow; dolphin at her
feet. Plain border.
Arm. HI, 152, 27(37 mm.). M. Gomez Moreno, Archivo
Esp. de Arte y Arqueol., i (1925), pp. 38-9 and fig. 26.
[c. Pl. 138.]
(a) Brescia (Martinengo). Silver. Rizz., no. 435. Diam.
given as 57 (? 37) mm. (Z») Florence, J 36-5 mm. Sup.,
no. 219 (diam. wrongly given). Fair, (c) London,
V. A. M. (Salting), bronze gilt, J 38 mm. (d, e) Madrid,
Mus. Arqueol. Two specimens, bronze, fairly old casts.
Gomez Moreno, loc. cit. (/) Paris, 37 mm. Arm., loc.
cit. (gj Gustave Dreyfus, 1,35mm. (A) L. Hamburger,
Auct. 19. ix. 1921, Pl. xviii, 419. Silver, 38 mm.
(?) Lazaro, Madrid. La Coleccion Lazaro de Madrid,
ii (1927), n. 706-7 (apparently worn).
This medal represents not the Cid, as Armand supposed,
but Don Rodrigo de Bivar y Mendoza, lord of the Castillo
del Cid, first marquess of Cenete (1491), a natural son of
the ‘great cardinal’ D. Pedro de Mendoza. He was
married in 1492 to Leonora de la Cerda; after the death
of this lady, 8 Apr. 1497, he became a candidate for the
hand of Lucrezia Borgia, presumably after the nullification
of her marriage with Giovanni Sforza (20. xii. 1497). (See
Justi in Jahrb. preuss. Kunsts., xii (1891), p. 176; £urita,
Hist, del Rey Don Hernando, 1610, t. v, p. 193.)
This medal has, especially in its reverse, much in
common with those of Andrea Capelli and Bernardino de
Carvajal, and may be dated to the nineties. The reference
of the reverse is obscure. But if it was made in 1497 or
1498 it might allude (by Mars) to his earlier warlike ex-
ploits in the war against the Moors and (by Venus) to his
matrimonial prospects. Don Rodrigo would then have
been born about 1472. Sr. Gomez Moreno, however (loc.
cit.), regards the medal as undoubtedly referring to the first
marriage in 1492, whence it would follow that Don Rodrigo
was born in 1466. But there would be little cause for the
production of a medal in Rome (which the style of this
piece indicates as the place of origin) before the candidature
for Lucrezia’s hand. Don Rodrigo died in Feb. 1523 :
Bol. de la Real Acad, de la Hist., Madrid, vol. 88 (1926), p. 237
note.
BORGIA (Cesare).
859. The little medal of Cesare, rev. AVT CESAR AVT
NIHIL, with the Borgia device in a circle (quarterly, 1 and
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856-9
supplied by M. Bourgey. Much tooled, (c) Reproduc-
tion at Paris (Armand-Valton), f 53 mm.
The obverse legend, based on the preceding medal, ends
Iust(itiae) Pa(cis) Q(ue) C(ultor); the reverse is to be ex-
panded Molem Adrianam vallis fossis propugnaculis corri-
dorisque cinxit.
On the works at Castel Sant’ Angelo, see Rodocanachi,
op. cit., pp. 94 ff. This second medal is of very coarse
work. Both were probably foundation-pieces.
Czobor thinks) at the time of his later visit in 1512, especially
seeing that his patriarchal dignity is not mentioned.
The motto, as Prof. Bensly suggests, looks like an ex-
pansion of Virtuti fortuna comes (or virtutis); see Alciati,
Embl., cxix (ed. 1621) and Dielitz, Wahl- und Denkspriiche.
A large medallion, unlettered, of this man is illustrated
by Berzeviczy, Beatrix Kirdlyne (1908), p. 501, but I have
been unable to discover where it is. The diameter appears
to be about 120 mm.
856. Obv. v ALEXANDER * VI * ▼ PONT * MAXI
MVS v Bust 1., tonsured, wearing cope with
decorated orphrey, morse with winged (?) facing
head. Pearled border.
Rev. v OB V SAPIENTIAM y CVM y FORTVNA y
CONIVNCv The Borgia ox standing r., head
to front; a hovering angel places a wreath on
his head; before him a small sheaf, a bunch
of flowers (?), and a palm-branch falling to the
ground. Pearled border.
Arm. II, 63, 9 (36 mm.). Bonanni, i, p. 115, no. 5.
Venuti, p. 43, no. ii. Tres. de Num. I, xxv, 4. Martinori,
op. cit., p. 22, d. Hab., Pl. Ixvii, 1. [b. Pl. 138.]
(a) Florence, 34 mm. Sup., no. 193. (6) London (George
III), lead, | 35-5 mm. Hill, Rom. Med., p. 42, Pl. vii, 6.
The attribution to Caradosso has been considered (Hill,
loc. cit., Habich). If the medal refers to Alexander’s
triumphal return to Rome on 27 June 1495, as Woodward
has suggested, Caradosso was not there then; he had
arrived in Rome on 23 Feb. 1495, the Pope left on 27 May,
and Caradosso was back in Milan, it would seem, by
24 June. But this last fact is not quite certain (see Hill,
op. cit., p. 43, note 2).
BAKOCZ (Thomas), Primate of Hungary.
857. Obv. (leaf) THOMAS • CAR • STRIGON • VN
GAR*PRIMAS Bust 1., elderly, tonsured, wear-
ing rochet. Pearled border.
Rev. SVM Y DEA Y V1RTVTI y 1VRE y LOCATA y
COMES Fortune, nude, with long fore-lock,
moving 1. on dolphin over sea; she holds yard
of sail in r., and sheet in 1.; rocks to 1. and r.;
behind her, head of a wind blowing, and above
it, a winged putto standing 1. on a dragon,
blowing a trumpet and accompanied by an
eagle. Pearled border.
Arm. HI, 210,77 (64mm.). Bergmann, Medaillen auf be-
ruhmte und ausgezeichnete Manner des Oesterr. Kaiserstaates,
i (1844), pp. 55-60. B. Czobor in Archdeologiai Ertesito
(1889), pp. 118-19. [c. PL 138.]
(a) Budapest, Nat. Mus., ex Szechenyi, J 65mm. Czobor,
loc. cit. Good. (Z>) Florence, 64 mm. Sup., no. 842.
Fair, (c) London (George HI), J 64mm. Burl. Mag.,
xxii (1912), p. 132, Pl. e.
Thomas Bakocz of Erdod, born about 1432 (he was in
his 80th year when he visited Rome in 1512), became Arch-
bishop of Gran (Strigonium) and Primate of Hungary on
20 Dec. 1497, Cardinal on 28 Sept. 1500, and Patriarch of
Constantinople on 30 Oct. 1507. He died on n June 1521.
On this medal, which is of Italian work, and may perhaps
have been made in Rome, he looks elderly but not so old as
eighty. It seems more probable therefore that it was made
at the time of his promotion to the Cardinalate, than (as
BIVAR Y MENDOZA (Don Rodrigo de).
858. Obv. MARCHIO y RODER1CVS « DE ► BIVAR y
Bust r., with long hair, wearing tall cap with
knot at side, and cloak; strap (baldric?) over
r. shoulder. Plain border.
Rev. QVORVMyOPVS AD ESTyAETATISy
ANO y XXVI a Mars and Venus; on 1., Mars
(y mars y) in crested helmet and cuirass, spear
in r., shield on 1. arm, standing r., confronting
Venus (yVENVSy), who stands 1., nude but for
scarf held in both hands across middle, in
raised r. flame-tipped arrow; dolphin at her
feet. Plain border.
Arm. HI, 152, 27(37 mm.). M. Gomez Moreno, Archivo
Esp. de Arte y Arqueol., i (1925), pp. 38-9 and fig. 26.
[c. Pl. 138.]
(a) Brescia (Martinengo). Silver. Rizz., no. 435. Diam.
given as 57 (? 37) mm. (Z») Florence, J 36-5 mm. Sup.,
no. 219 (diam. wrongly given). Fair, (c) London,
V. A. M. (Salting), bronze gilt, J 38 mm. (d, e) Madrid,
Mus. Arqueol. Two specimens, bronze, fairly old casts.
Gomez Moreno, loc. cit. (/) Paris, 37 mm. Arm., loc.
cit. (gj Gustave Dreyfus, 1,35mm. (A) L. Hamburger,
Auct. 19. ix. 1921, Pl. xviii, 419. Silver, 38 mm.
(?) Lazaro, Madrid. La Coleccion Lazaro de Madrid,
ii (1927), n. 706-7 (apparently worn).
This medal represents not the Cid, as Armand supposed,
but Don Rodrigo de Bivar y Mendoza, lord of the Castillo
del Cid, first marquess of Cenete (1491), a natural son of
the ‘great cardinal’ D. Pedro de Mendoza. He was
married in 1492 to Leonora de la Cerda; after the death
of this lady, 8 Apr. 1497, he became a candidate for the
hand of Lucrezia Borgia, presumably after the nullification
of her marriage with Giovanni Sforza (20. xii. 1497). (See
Justi in Jahrb. preuss. Kunsts., xii (1891), p. 176; £urita,
Hist, del Rey Don Hernando, 1610, t. v, p. 193.)
This medal has, especially in its reverse, much in
common with those of Andrea Capelli and Bernardino de
Carvajal, and may be dated to the nineties. The reference
of the reverse is obscure. But if it was made in 1497 or
1498 it might allude (by Mars) to his earlier warlike ex-
ploits in the war against the Moors and (by Venus) to his
matrimonial prospects. Don Rodrigo would then have
been born about 1472. Sr. Gomez Moreno, however (loc.
cit.), regards the medal as undoubtedly referring to the first
marriage in 1492, whence it would follow that Don Rodrigo
was born in 1466. But there would be little cause for the
production of a medal in Rome (which the style of this
piece indicates as the place of origin) before the candidature
for Lucrezia’s hand. Don Rodrigo died in Feb. 1523 :
Bol. de la Real Acad, de la Hist., Madrid, vol. 88 (1926), p. 237
note.
BORGIA (Cesare).
859. The little medal of Cesare, rev. AVT CESAR AVT
NIHIL, with the Borgia device in a circle (quarterly, 1 and
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