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Medalist of the popes from Gregory XIII to Clement VIII, Nicolo came from Venice and is recorded as engraver at the papal mint in 1591, De Bonis also worked as a master goldsmith. See Supino, pp. 165-67; Forrer i, p. 212; Thieme-Becker4, p. 301; Martinori, fasc. xi, pp. 69, 82; fasc. xii, pp. 8, 33, 34, 41, 68, 69, 76; Bulgari, Roma i, p. 188. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976