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A pupil of Gian Francesco Bonzagni, Spinelli was born in Parma, but was active principally in Venice, where he was made assistant engraver at the mint in 1535, and chief engraver in 1540. See N. Pellicelli in Thieme-Becker 31, p. 385; Forrer 5, pp. 611-12; Kress, pp. 77-78. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976