Raimondo Trentanove (1792-1832) was born in Faenza, Italy. He was the son of the sculptor and stucco worker Antonio. He studied at the Studio all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara under Bartolini, and then in Rome under Canova. His oeuvre includes portraits, statues, funeral monuments and copies made after the Antique, and after Canova. He carved a bust of Pio VII (1823), now in The Loggia dei Mercanti in Ancona. The Gallery of Modern Art in Milan has a bust of Canova by Trentanove, dated 1817.
Demosthenes has been described as "one of the noblest patriots of Greece and her greatest orator" (Richter, op. cit.). His political career, which began when he was in his thirties, was turbulent. He was responsible for the alliance of Athens with Thebes. His tragic death by poison was to avoid an execution order placed on him by Denades, after the end of the Lamian War.