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Sculptor, engraver, medalist, born at Bologna. Manfredini was active at the Milan mint from 1798-1830 and became chief engraver in 1808. He was professor of medallic art at the Academy of Arts in Milan. Manfredini designed the coins and medals for Napoleon I, Francis I, the Empress Maria Luisa and Francis IV d'Este, often using designs of the painter Andrea Appiani. See Forrer 3, pp. 552-55; Thieme-Becker 24, pp. 10-11. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976