Sperandio de Mantua (c.1431-1504), bronze medal of Lodovico Carbone (c.1436-1482), CANDIDIOR PVRA CARBO POETA NIVE, bust left, wearing cap and gown, rev. HANC TIBI CALLIOPE SERVAT LODOVICE CORONAM, Carbone receiving a wreath from the muse Caliope, a fountain in the background, signed in left field OPVS SPERANDE I, 71mm. (Arm.I,66.13; Bargello 96; Hill 359; K.114), pierced dark brown cast, very fine

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Sperandio de Mantua (c.1431-1504), bronze medal of Lodovico Carbone (c.1436-1482), CANDIDIOR PVRA CARBO POETA NIVE, bust left, wearing cap and gown, rev. HANC TIBI CALLIOPE SERVAT LODOVICE CORONAM, Carbone receiving a wreath from the muse Caliope, a fountain in the background, signed in left field OPVS SPERANDE I, 71mm. (Arm.I,66.13; Bargello 96; Hill 359; K.114), pierced dark brown cast, very fine

Lot Essay

Carbone was a poet from Ferrara. The line of verse on the obverse, taken from a poem to Carbone by Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, contains a pun on his name.