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Niccolo di Forzore Spinelli, born in Florence of a family of goldsmiths. He signed five medals, but a much larger number, many of higher quality than the signed ones, have been attributed to him. His medallic portraits are strongly modeled with reverses often dependent on the antique. In 1468 he is noted in Burgundy as a seal engraver to Charles the Bold. See Forrer 2, pp. 93-97; Corpus, pp. 243-80; Hill in Thieme-Becker 31, pp. 387-88; Kress, pp. 49-51. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976