Object Description
132 PAUL V Borghese, Pope 1605-21 1605
Obv. Bust to right, wearing cope. Around, PAVLVS . V . BVRGHESIVS . ROMANVS . PONT . MAX . A . S . M . DC . V . PONT . I
Rev. Exterior of Pauline Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore. Around, BEATISS . MARIAE . SEMP . VIRGINI . SACELLVM . AFVNDAMENTIS . EREXIT
Bronze, 55 mm.
The version noted in Venuti is signed AMB. B, suggesting that the medal may be by Ambrosius Bosio, a medalist noted in Rome to 1610, who may be the Bosio whom Forrer (i, p. 227) dates in the second half of the sixteenth century. Bulgari (i, p. 200) records a Giovanni Bosio active as silversmith in Rome from 1622 until his death in 1628.
Bibl.: Venuti, p. 207, no. 3 (obv. insc. below AMB. B.); Bonnani, pp. 513-17, no. 14; Tresor Papes, pi. 26, 5; Martinori, fasc. xiii, p. 114.