Object Description
125 ANGELO MARIA QUIRINI (1680-1755), Archbishop of Brescia, 1726, Cardinal, 1727 1750
Obv. Bust to left, wearing skullcap and mozzetta. Around, ANG . M . S . R . E . BIBL . CARD . QVIRINVS . EP . BRIX; on truncation, OTHO . HAMERANI .
Rev. Inscription, BIBLIOTHECAE | A SE ERECTAE | DOTATAEQVE | COMMODO VRB . BRIX . | PRIMARIO HVIVS I MAGISTRATVI | POSSESSIONEM I CONTRADIDIT | ANNO IVBIL . | MDCCL .
Bronze, struck, 48 mm.
Cardinal Quirini founded the Biblioteca Queriniana in Brescia in 1745. In 1750 it was opened to the public.
Bibl.: Brescia i, p. 184, no. 1197; MM. 2, pp. 373-76, pl. 191,2 (illustrates later restrikes by Peter Paul Werner).