Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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Exhibition Prize Medals, Turin, 1898; Perugia, 1902; Como, 1899;
Naples, 900o; Brescia, I904; Ravenna, I904: Genoa, I905, etc.;
Agricultural Prize Medals, and numerous other medals intended
to commemorate public festivities, rifle competitions, regattas,
private societies, etc.; - Marriage medals, Silver and Golden
Weddings, etc.; - King Umberto I.'s body transferred to the
Pantheon, I900; Popular vote for an Italian University at
Trieste, 1901; - Plaquette reproducing Bertini's picture showing
Volta experimenting before Bonaparte, First consul; - Child's
Portrait-plaquette; - V. Physiological Congress at Turin, 1901;
- Vittorio Alfieri; - Presentation Plaquette to Prof. Camillo
Bazzolo of the Turin University; - Inauguration of the Torre
Umberto I. at Milan, I905; -X. International Navigation Congress at Milan, I905; - Patterns for a coinage of Vittorio Emanuele III., I903, by Boninsegna (A Io00 and 20 Lire; AR 2 Francs;
if Io Centimes); - H.H. Leo XIII.; various Portrait-medals
and plaquettes; - H.H. Pius X.; various medals; -- Marchese
Luigi di Canossa, bishop of Verona, on his elevation to the dignity
of a Cardinal, 1877; - Cardinal Sebastiano Galeati of Ravenna;
I890; - Cardinal Archbishop Andrea Ferrari of Milan, I894;
Cardinal Miccislas Ledochowski, 895; - Cardinal Agostino Gaetano Riboldi, 1901, and many other Portrait-pieces of public and
private persons.
In I9I0, Signor Stefano Johnson published a further album of
more recent works, " Medaglie, Placchette. Fusioni ". In the first
few pages the various Patterns, official and others, issued since 1902
are described and illustrated, including the adopted designs; they
are the works of four artists Leonardo Bistolfi, Egidio Boninsegna,
Davide Calandra, and Carlo Canonica. To Boninsegna the dies for
the gold coinage were entrusted, to Calandra those for the silver,
to Canonica those for the bronze, and to Bistolfi those for the nickel.
The following medals and plaques are also reproduced: Admission
Ticket to the International Exhibition at Milan, I906; - Prize
medals and plaquettes, and group in bronze, commemorative of
the same Exhibition; - Third Centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi;
Jubilee of the ' Societa Li'gura di Storia Patria', 908; - Centenary of the R. Gymnasium ' Scipione Maffei' at Verona, I908;
Giuseppe Piermarini, I808-1908; - Commemorative Plaquette
of the Foundation of the new Railway station at Milan, 1906;Centenary of the Casa Ricordi (2), I908; - Centenary of the
'Conservatorio musicale Giuseppe Verdi', 1908; - Plaque of
Inauguration of the new Bridge of the Po at Piacenza, I908; -
Inauguration of the building of the " Circolo filologico milanese ",
I908; - Conte Giberto Borromeo, I906; - Senator Giuseppe
Colombo, 1906; - Prof. Karolo Fadda, of Naples, 90o5; - Prof.