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Michele Lorenzoni<br />
(Florence, 1684 – 1737)<br />
An Italian Breech-Loading Repeating Flintlock Gun<br />
Overall length: 150.5 cm / Barrel length: 83 cm<br />
circa 1700<br />
Marked with the ownership monograms of Ferdinando III<br />
de’Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663–1713)<br />
Little is known of the life of Michele Lorenzoni, which is<br />
strange in the face of his significant accomplishments in the<br />
development of repeating firearms, the extraordinarily high<br />
standard to which they were finished and the distinction of his<br />
court patronage. He worked in Florence from the early 1680s<br />
until late in the 1730s and counted the Princes Medici, among<br />
others, as his patrons.<br />
Provenance<br />
France, Château de Gourdon<br />
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