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Master goldsmith, engraver of seals and medalist, active in Rome 1634-74. In 1655 Travani was consul of the Roman guild of goldsmiths, and from 1655(?) to 1674 was employed as an engraver at the mint. The sitters for his medals include Pope Alexander VII, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Medici dukes. See Forrer 6, pp. 129-30; 8, p. 238; Thieme-Becker 33, p. 360; Martinori, fasc. xv, pp. 35, 66, 67, 71, 77; Bulgari 2, p. 482; Bartolotti, pp. 77-81, 415 (document no. 44); Dworschak (for the medals of Alexander VII). --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976