Hill, George Francis: A corpus of Italian medals of the Renaissance before Cellini: in 2 volumes (Volume 1): Text (London: British Museum, 1930)

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PART VI

MENDOZA (Inigo Lopez de), Count of
Tendella, first Marquess of Mondejar.
936. Obv. yENECVSy LODES yDEtMEN DOCAy

COMES y Bust 1., with long hair, wearing small
round cap with back edge turned up, and chain
with pendant over robe.
Rev. Within a formal wreath, inscription in
six lines FVNDATOR1 I QVIETIS y ET | PACIS y ITA|
LICE y ANN y | MCCCCLX|XXVI
Arm. II, 83, 1 (25 mm.). [c. Pl. 152.]
(a) Madrid, Prado, Coll. Bosch. Bol. Soc. Esp. de Excurs.,
xxv (1917), p. 60, note 2. (Z>) Madrid, Bibl. de Palacio.
Ibid, (c) Paris (Armand), f 26 mm. Arm., loc. cit.
(d) Stockholm, f 27-5 mm., with modern gilding. The
date tooled out. (e) D. Manuel Gomez Moreno, 25 mm.
Boletin, ibid.
Evidently made, perhaps in Rome, on the occasion of
Mendoza’s visit to Italy in 1486 as ambassador of Ferdinand
and Isabella to Innocent VIII.
There may possibly be a letter (S or D ?) before the word
ENECVS (which is Burckard’s spelling, not ENEGVS).
D in LODES for P. Mendoza arrived in Rome on 13 Sept.
(Burckard). The medal confirms the name Inigo as against
Enea, which is preferred by Celani in his edition of the
Diary (i, p. 159).
ORSINI (Rinaldo).
937. Obv. y RAYNALDVS y DEVRSINIS y ARCHIE
PISCOPVSyFLORENy Bust 1., tonsured, wearing
rochet.
Rev. yBENEyFACEREyETyLETARI y Fortune,
wearing small turreted crown (?), tunic and
mantle, seated 1., on chair, r. hand holding
tiller of rudder which rests on globe, cornucopiae
in 1. arm.; in exergue, y fort y red y Linear
border.
Arm. 1, 86, 8 (60 mm.). Litta, Orsini, no. 47.
[e. Pl. 152.]
(a) Berlin, 60 mm. Friedl., p. 146, no. 7, Pl. xxviii.
Hab., Pl. xlii, 5. (6) Brescia (Brozzoni), 59 mm. Rizz.,
no. 122. (c) Copenhagen, f 59-5 mm. (d) Florence,
58 mm. Sup., no. 100. Fair, (e) London, f 59-5 mm.
Pres, by Sir Otto Beit, ex Lobbecke (lot 19) and Rosen-
heim (lot 87). B. F. A. C., Ital. Sc., p. 107, no. 48.
(/) Milan (Med. Mun.), f 60, battered, but old.
Fortuna redux, as Friedlander (who thinks the medal is
probably by Niccold Fiorentino) suggests, may refer to the
archbishop’s return to Florence from Rome in 1485.
PAVIA (Giov. P. di).
938. Obv. yIOyPyDEPAP IEyXVHUyAN Bust
L, with long hair, wearing round cap and plain
dress.
Rev. None.
Arm. II, 76, 16 (57 mm.). [a. Pl. 152.]
(a) Paris (Valton), 57 mm. Arm., loc. cit. (Z>) Formerly
Heiss, 58 mm. Heiss, Flor., i, p. 59, Pl. v, 6.
It may be presumed without too much rashness that
PAPIE is for PAPIA, i.e. Pavia (though Milanesi, MS.
Siena, suggests ‘de’ Papi’). IO. P. may be lohannes
Paulus or Petrus, or the P may represent a surname. The
dress suggests, as Heiss observes, that the young man is
a clerk. This attractive portrait is conceived in much the
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same spirit as that of Girolamo Ridolfi of San Gimignano
and the anonymous one at Florence (no. 1034 below, Pl. 172).
PORTA (Ardicino della).
939. Obv. Y ARDICINVS Y DELAPORTA y NOVA
RIEN Y EPS Y ALERIEN Bust 1., tonsured, wearing
rochet.
Rev. Y IVSTVS Y DNVS Y ET Y IVSTITIA y D1L
EXIT Justice, veiled and wearing tunic and
mantle, seated 1. on a chair with tall back ;
holds sword erect in r., scales in 1.
Arm. II, 56, 14 (56 mm.). [6. Pl. 152.]
(a) Brescia (Brozzoni), 57 mm. Mazz. I, xxix, 3. Rizz.,
no. 482. (6) Milan (Med. Mun.), f 57 mm. Good,
(f) Paris, f 56 mm. Tres. de Num. I, xxxvii, 2.
Compare, for style, the medal of Rinaldo Orsini, and,
especially for the lettering, that of John Kendal. This is
evidently before 4 Mar. 1489 when Ardicino della Porta was
promoted Cardinal, although he retained the see of Aleria.
The motto : Ps. x. 8 [iustitias).
RIDOLFI (Girolamo), da San Gimignano.
940. Obv. y HIE y DE y SANCTO y GEMINIANO y
S y APS y Bust 1., with long hair, wearing small
round cap, and robe. Plain border.
Rev. yGEMINIOyDICATVMy Pegasus spring-
ing r. Plain border.
Arm. II, 52, 22 (50 mm.); Ill, 173, I. Hab., Pl. xlv, 7.
[d. Pl. 153.]
(a) Berlin, 47 mm. Friedl., p. 152, no. 30. (6) Florence,
50 mm. Sup., no. 150, Pl. xlviii. Fair, (r) London
(George III), f 50-5 mm. (<7) London, V. A. M. (207-
1866), f 51 mm. (e) Formerly Heiss, 49 mm. Heiss,
Flor., i, p. 65, Pl. vi, 8. (/) Formerly S. Pozzi, 51 mm.
Sale Catal., 1919, no. 826, Pl. ii.
Girolamo di Lodovico Ridolfi, Secretary Apostolic, born
in 1465 and died in 1526, is supposed to be the person
represented. He was living in Rome in 1477, but does
not appear in Burckard’s diary later. Milanesi, however
(MS. Siena), says that he was at the court of Julius II, and
describes him as Knight of the Golden Spur and Con-
sistorial Advocate. By its style one would hardly date
the medal earlier than about 1485. The reverse type sug-
gests that the man wrote verses, his talent being devoted
to the patron saint of his native place; but why the name
of the saint is given the form Geminius, is obscure.
SCHIAFENATI (Filippo), Knight of St
John of Jerusalem.
941. Obv. Y PHILIPVS Y SCLA FENATVS y MILES
Bust 1., youthful, with long curly hair falling
over forehead; wears robe with cross pattee on
1. breast.
Rev. yHIEROSOLO mitanvs Youngman,
helmeted, nude but for scarf round middle,
standing to front, head 1., holding up diamond
ring in r., resting with 1. on spear; below,
ySyDYA
Arm. II, 56, 12 (54 mm.); III, 175, b. Bode, Jahrb., xxv
(1904), p. 10; Flor. Bildh?, p. 280. [a. Pl. 153.]
(a) Paris (Armand), 54 mm. Arm., loc. cit. Heiss, Flor.,
ii, P- 95, PL vii, 9-
Filippo, the brother of Giovanni Jacopo Schiafenati,