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210, Lot: 375. Estimate $100.
Sold for $207. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni). 1572-1585. Æ Medal (30mm, 12.43 g, 12h). Gian Federigo Bonzagni, engraver. Dated 1572. GREGORIVS · XIII PONT · MAX · AN · I, bust left, wearing camauro and mozzetta / VGONOTTORVM · STRAGES ·, the massacre of the Huguenots. Mazio 110; Lincoln 697-9; DDL pl. XV, 8; Whitman 14. Superb EF.


From the Luparello Collection.

Best known for his reformation of the Gregorian calendar, Pope Gregory XIII sought wide reform for the Church itself. The Index of Forbidden Books was updated and the Consistories were abolished and replaced with the College of Cardinals. In order to raise money for his many public and cultural improvements, he confiscated many properties, alienating many of the gentry and noble families and plunged the papal states into near-anarchy until his death.