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SPERANDIO DA MANTUA, ca. 1425-1504.
7 Lodovico Carbone of Ferrara, poet, 1430-1485. Cast bronze medal, undated (around 1464). (Ø 69,2 mm;
127,75 gr) CANDIDIOR PVRA CARBO POETA NIVE. Bust left, hair to nape of neck, wearing tall soft
cap and grown // HANC TIBI CALLIOPE SERVAT LODOVICE CORONAM. Carbone, wearing cap as
on obverse, and grown with long hanging sleeves, girt at waist, standing right, receiving a wreath from
Calliope, who, nude to waist, is seated facing him on a cippus ; in background, a fountain with reservoir
on a column from which two jets descent to a basin. In field to left: OPVS SPERANDEI.
Suspension hole. Extremely fine contemporary cast 10.000.-
Armand I, p. 66, n°13 (Ø 72 mm); Hill, Corpus I, p. 92, n°359 (Ø 69-72 mm); Hill & Pollard (Kress Coll.) n°114
(Ø 70 mm).
Provenance: Collection A. M.
Auction Adolf E. Cahn 59, Francfort (Germany), 14 March 1928, lot n°2188.
Collection Dr Johannes Jantzen, Auction Sternberg XXIX, Zurich (Switzerland), 30 October 1995, lot n°696.
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