Object Description
145 FRANCESCO REDI (1626-98), doctor, poet, philosopher 1684
Obv. Bust to right. Around, FRANCISCVS . REDI . PATRITIVS . ARETINVS . ; below, M . SOLD . 1684
Rev. Bacchus and Silenus with maenads and satyrs. In exergue, CANEBAM, flanked by small M and S
Bronze, 87 mm.
Redi was the chief physician to Ferdinand II and Cosimo III de' Medici. This is one of three medals of Redi commissioned by Cosimo; each has a reverse illustrating a dififerent facet of Redi's activity. Here, the reverse of a bacchanal refers to the dithyramb by Soldani, Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685. The inscription means ""I have sung.""
Bibl.: Rosati, no. 241; Lankheit, docs. 349, 350, figs. 153, 154; Forrer 5, pp. 565, 566 (ill.); Brescia i, p. 135, no. 932; Detroit, no. 88; MM. 2, p. 167, pl. 141, 3.
