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Roman medalist. With his brother Ottone he succeeded their father Giovanni as engraver to the papal mint in 1705. Beginning in 1734 he and Ottone held a monopoly of coinage for the states of the Church. Ermenegildo worked also for the King of Sardinia and at the imperial mint at Palermo. See Fred. Noack in Thieme-Becker 15, pp. 547-49; Forrer 2, pp. 394-98; Bulgari 2, pp. 8-9. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976