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Title: Life and times of Petrarch. With notices of Boccacio and his illustrious contemporaries
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844 Pfister, J. G. (Johann Georg)
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 Numismatics -- Italy
Publisher: London : H. Colburn
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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I bought the medallion many years ago atMilan of a dealer in old iron, old clothes, glass bottles,and the like. At the time of purchase, it was in such acondition that a few letters only were to be perceived,enough, however, to awaken my curiosity to know whatit might be. So I paid the five sous demanded for it,and, after a careful cleaning, the medallion appeared inthe state represented in the fac-simile herewith given. Vol. L, Page 191. PAPAL BULL OF BENEDICT XIL 1334—1342.—No. V. This unpublished bull, from the county of Venaissin,may be safely attributed from its fine workmanship toBenedict XII. After a croslet inscribed SiGILUM DO-MINI Pape, the field exhibits the bust of St. Peter, donein the best manner of that period. Reverse — after a croslet DNI. (Domini) COMITATIVenASINI, (on his silver coins Comes Venasini) and inthe field the papal cross-keys. This bull is also a du-plicate from the Museum at Avignon, and I publish itas a fine specimen for showing that our medallion
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■^^,.,.7 /. /^ -^. „/M%u THE AGE OF PETRARCH. 391 of Laura might, indeed, be a production of the time ofPetrarchs sojourn at Avignon. Vol. I., Page 200. COIN OF ROBERT OF ANJOU, KING OF NAPLES. 1309—1343.—No. VIII. The king appears crowned, and seated on a throne,which is supported by two lions. He is holding in theright hand a sceptre, which terminates in a fleur de lis,and in the left the orb surmounted by a cross. Inscribedafter a croslet Robert. Di : GRA: Ierl et SicilRex. (Robertus Dei gratia Jerusalem et SiciliaeRex.) Reverse—an ornamented cross, having in each quartera fleur de lis, inscribed COMES. PVINCIE. (Provincise—of Pro, et Victa) ET. FORCALQUERII. * Vol. L, Page 211. MEDALLION REPRESENTING THE PORTRAIT OFPETRARCH. The laurelled bust of the immortal poet, wiappedin what appears to be the monastic habit usually wornby philosophers and other eminent men of the thir-teenth and fourteenth centuries, (page 212). Thebust seems to me to be placed on a body of water;

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