Book Title: Fasti ducales ab Anafesto I. ad Silvestrum Valerium Venetorum ducem cum eorum iconibus, insignibus, nummismatibus publicis, & privatis aere sculptis: inscriptionibus ex aula M. Consilii, ac sepulchralibus. Adiectae sunt adnotationes, ad vitam cuiusque principis, rerum, quae omissae fuerant; studio Ioannis Palatii ...

Author: Palazzi, Giovanni, b. 1640?

Image Title: Portrait and Medal of Alvise Contarini

Description: A portrait of Venetian Doge Alvise Contarini (1601-1683), who reigned from 1676 to 1683. The medal on this page, Contarini’s 1676 osella, depicts Doge Contarini on the obverse, humbly accepting the banner of the Venetian Republic from Saint Mark. The mintmaster, Agostino Zolio, has his initials placed at the bottom center. The reverse contains a simple legend commemorating the first year of the Doge’s reign; the circumscribing inscription.

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