Iconography

HISTORY

Modern / Ottoman empire / - Battle of Lepanto

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / Topography / Countries A-Z / Italy / Messina

PORTRAITS

Sitters A-Z / Caracciolo, Ferrante (d. 1596)
Commanders, soldiers, etc / Commanders / 5. Italy / Caracciolo, Ferrante (d. 1596)

Further details

Cast bronze medal; inscription obverse: FERDINANDVS. CARACCIOLVS. DVX. AEROLAE. ET. VIC. COMES; inscription reverse: MESSANA LIBERATA

Artist or creator

Italian (southern)

Date

1590 (circa) - 1595

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Coins and Medals) (BM. 1875-10-4-8)

Notes on photograph

Project

Corpus of Medals

Bibliographic Citation

P. Attwood, Italian Medals c. 1530-1600, London 2003, v. I, p. 430, no. 1075a; v. II, pl. 225

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Web resources

British Museum database
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

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