ITALY, Cremona Medal 80mm End of XIX cent Gianello della Torre Rare

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ITALY, Cremona. Gianello della Torre, clockmaker, engineer, and mathematician. Circa 1500-1585. Uniface Æ Medal (80mm, 159.5 g). By Jacopo Nizzola da Trezzo. Later cast after a 1548 original. End of XIX cent. circa. IANELLVS · TVRRIAN · CREMON · HOROLOG · ARCHITECT, draped bust right / Blank. Brown surfaces, with attached loop. Gianello della Torre, born in 1500 in Cremona, Italy, was an architect and engineer working first in Milan, then in the service of Emperor Charles V, then finally for King Philip II of Spain. Gianello died in 1585 in Toledo, Spain. The obverse inscription, identifying Gianello as a clock-maker, refers to a celebrated clock he made for the emperor in 1529.

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