Lot 92: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

ERMES FLAVIO DE BONIS, called LYSIPPUS THE YOUNGER (active c. 1470-1484) Giovanni Alvise Toscani (c. 1450-1478), consistorial advocate bronze medal, IOANNES ALOISIVS TVSCA AVDITOR CAM, bust left in round cap, rev., VICTA IAM NVRSIA FATIS AGITVR, Neptune in sea-car drawn by two capricorns, 42.5mm (Hill 811; Arm II, 28, 13; Kress 220; Waldman, 'The Modern Lysippus', Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal, 2000, p. 101, fig. 5.14), attempted piercing on obverse, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina

Provenance: Hermann Vogel (1841-1917) collection, Sotheby's, 9 April 1992, lot 460; Morton & Eden, 27 June 2006, lot 380. The reverse legend 'After having persuaded Norcia, now he is driven on by the Fates' suggests Toscani's involvement in diplomacy at Norcia, an episcopal see of the Papal States in Umbria.