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Medals, Italy


Ghiberti - Gioberti


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Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Renaissance sculptor from Florence, no date, AE 41 mm, Cerbara
LAVRENTIVS GHIBERTI,
bust of Lorenzo Ghiberti/
FORMIS COELESTIBVS TERRESTRIEVS VIVIS DE MARMORE ET AERE DVCTIS
("Living in Heavenly Forms of Marble and Bronze"),
in wreath
Posted January 2023







Italy, Giovanni A. Gioberti, 1761-1834, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Torino
(Piemonte), AE 43 mm, no date (circa 1840), Galeazzi
IOANNES ANT. IOBERTVS,
bust of Giovanni Gioberti/
ARTES CHEMIAE OPIEVS AVXIT
("He Increased the Skills of Chemistry"),
in laurel wreath
Tergolina pag. 69, Freem. 206 (Giobert)
Posted January 2023







Italy, Vincenzo Gioberti, 1801-1852, AE 47 mm, no date, 59.50g, Opus: G. Galeazzi
VINCENZO GIOBERTI,
bust of Vincenzo Gioberti, wearing jacket and scarf;
G. GALEAZZI F. below bust/
VNITA FORTIS,
fasces (bundle of rods), surmounted by a cross
Martini-Turricchia 1754-1755,
Camozzi 802, MT 83
Posted May 2023


Note #1: Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian philosopher and patriot. He
was one of the main intellectual figures of the Italian Risorgimento.

Note #2: Vincenzo Gioberti was the first President of the
Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia.