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[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
[Enea da Parma Inv f.]
[n.d., c.1560.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right, losing engraver's inscription.
A medallion portrait of Lodovico Domenichi (1515-64), translator of mainly Latin classics but imprisioned by the Inquisition in 1552-3 for translating a work by Calvin. From an aborted series of medals of contemporaries by Antonio Francesco Doni.
[Ref: 56349]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
Enea da Parma Inv f.
[n.d., c.1560.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right, losing engraver's inscription.
A medallion portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a scholar, poet, and literary theorist greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language. As a young man he had a love affair with Lucrezia Borgia. From an aborted series of medals of contemporaries by Antonio Francesco Doni.
BM 26322
[Ref: 56350]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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