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The medalist was thought by Milanesi (apud Armand 3,125) to have been from Cremona, a nephew of Altobello Melone, which Hill accepted with reservation. The medals date between 1571-89. See Forrer 4, pp. 17-19; Supino, pp. 156-57; Martinori fasc. xi, pp. 70-71, 82-83; fasc. Xii, pp. 8, 38; Hill in Thieme-Becker 24, p. 368; Kress, pp. 121-22. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976