ITALY, La dottrina della poesia antica, Roma [The Doctrine of Antique Poetry, Rome], 1840, a copper medal by P. Girometti, busts of Pietro Metastasio, Ennio Visconti and Bartolomeo Pinellio in wreathed medallions, rev. legend in 5 lines, 49mm, 58.74g (Johnson 230; cf. Inasta 66, 3069; cf. DNW 64, 1304). Extremely fine £30-£40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) was a poet and librettist; Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751-1818), a politician and antiquarian; and Bartolomeo Pinellio (1781-1835), an illustrator and engraver.