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336 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
Magno, a patrician of Venice ; and (3) Giovanni Erao,
also a Venetian, and " Veronae Prater."
M. Armand publishes (Med. ItaL, 1879) eight medals
by Pomedello, to which total M. Friedlaender, in the last
number of the Jahrbuch, has added two, one of these being
a small portrait of the artist himself, but unsigned. M.
Friedlaender has also been the first to give a plate of the
Canossa medal (in the Imperial collection at Vienna), the
previous knowledge of which had only been derived from
the account of Cicognara. On this piece the device, which
always appears on the reverse side, is not accompanied by
the chasing-tools.
There is still another medal to be added to the list, the
discovery of which was made at the time of the sale of the
His de la Salle collection last year a collection singularly
rich in fine specimens by Pomedello. This represents
Charles the Fifth's great rival, Francis I. It is figured in
the Tresor de Num. Mid. Fran., PI. VII., 4, having on
the reverse a vase containing a salamander in the flames
EXTINGVO under which appears the
NVTBISCO .
same Pomedello mark, quite distinguishable in the
illustration. As Francis is styled King, the medal
cannot be earlier than 1515, and as he, like Charles, is
represented without hair on the face, it is probably not
later than 1521, at which time he is said to have worn
a beard to hide the scar of a wound.
Having, then, portrait-medals of these two foreign
potentates by a Veronese artist, we are led to inquire
how he came to be employed in their execution. There
seems to be no trace of Charles having been in Italy
before he became Emperor, so that we must conclude
that Pomedello was engaged at his court either in the
Netherlands or in Spain. If so, he probably produced