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MEDALS BY DE'PASTI IN THE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IN ZAGREB
Ivan Mirnik
; Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu
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Six bronze medals from the Numismatic Collection of the Archeological Museum in Zagreb, all acquired before the First World War, are dealt with in this article. They were modelled by the famous Italian artist Matteo de 'Pasti of Verona between 1446 and 1450. Their major part is directly or indirectly in connection with Sigismondo Malatesta, one of the
most picturesque personalites of Italy of the fifteenth century. Malatesta was a gif ted warrior and an accomplished patron of arts, Three of the medals bear his image on the obverse, with various scenes on the reverse (Catalogue Nos. 4-6) . The beautiful Isotta degli Atti, Malatesta's mistress, later, wife is depicted on two more medals (Cat. Nos. 2-3), one with an elephant (the Malatesta device »Elephas Indus culices non timet«) on the reverse, the other showing a closed book of elegies dedicated to Isotta. More space is dedicated to Timoteo Maffei (died in 1470), whose portrait can be seen on one medal (Cat. No. 1) , A citizen of Verona, just like the artist himself, he became canon at an early stage, and acquiring a profound learning, began the career as a famous
praecher, writer and teacher, his fame spreading all over Italy, All this brought the favour of three Popes (Pius Il, Nicolas V and Paul Il) upon him, The latter nominated Maffei first as his own secretary, in order to invest him as the fourty-seventh Archishop of Dubrovnik in 1467, Maffei
arrived in Dubrovnik in the same year, but soon enough discovered that his own ideas about the ecclesiastical, as well as secular matters did not correspond to those of the Ragusan Senate, The strife ended in an excommunication cast by the Arch bishop upon his people in 1469. Maffei died in 1470 while preparing for a journey to Hungary, following the invitation of the Hungarian and Croatian King Mathias I, and was subsequently buried in the Romanesque Cathedral of Dubrovnik. His medal seems to have been cast around 1446.
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.1985.
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